
BBC investigates Afghan maternal deaths after US aid cuts
Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent Aakriti Thapar / BBC When Shahnaz went into labour, her husband Abdul called a taxi to take them to the only medical facility accessible to them. “She was in a lot pain,” he says. A 20-minute drive away, the clinic was in Shesh Pol village in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan…