In Afghanistan, no need is more urgent than that of providing safe, effective maternal health services, and the Bayat Foundation has directed a significant portion of its efforts to that end. The group has collaborated with other international aid organizations, as well as with its network of donors, to construct a series of 10 maternity hospitals. These include a 20-bed facility in the Tora Bora district of the Nangarhar Province and a hospital in Maimana City, Faryab Province, that can care for 50 patients at a time. In a single recent year, close to 200,000 infants were born to mothers in these Bayat Foundation-assisted hospitals. Among the leading-edge services provided is the transmission of sonogram images from Afghanistan to the United States to enable quick diagnosis and treatment of potential problems.

2.  In Afghanistan, no need is more urgent than
that of providing safe, effective maternal
health services, and the Bayat Foundation
has directed a significant portion of its
efforts to that end. The group has
collaborated with other international aid
organizations, as well as with its network of
donors, to construct a series of 10 maternity
hospitals. These include a 20-bed facility in
the Tora Bora district of the Nangarhar
Province and a hospital in Maimana City,
Faryab Province, that can care for 50
patients at a time.

3.  In a single recent year, close to 200,000
infants were born to mothers in these
Bayat Foundation-assisted hospitals.
Among the leading-edge services
provided is the transmission of sonogram
images from Afghanistan to the United
States to enable quick diagnosis and
treatment of potential problems.

4.  Remote regions of Afghanistan have
particular difficulty in supplying basic care
for pregnant women, new mothers, and
newborns. In one relatively isolated
community, the estimated maternal
mortality rate reported in 2010 was six in
100. The Bayat Foundation continues to
work to reduce such alarming statistics and
to provide all of Afghanistan’s women with
the medical care they need.