Mullah Haibatullah, the leader of the Taliban, issued a decree closing all higher and semi-higher medical institutions to girls. The Taliban's Ministry of Public Health announced to health institute officials on Monday that girls are no longer allowed to study in these centers. The head of a private institution in Kabul told Afghanistan International that the Taliban's Minister of Public Health today summoned the officials of the institutes and informed them of Mullah Haibatullah's order.
He added that the Taliban's Minister of Public Health emphasized that women and girls are not allowed to enter health institutes as of today.
According to the source, "The Taliban's Minister of Public Health had summoned them to the ministry without saying what the meeting was about. He did not even allow questions about Mullah Haibatullah's new order."

This decree represents a severe escalation in the Taliban’s gender apartheid policies, targeting women’s access to professional education in a critical sector: healthcare. The ban violates multiple fundamental rights, including the right to education, equal opportunity, and participation in public life. It also undermines the healthcare system itself, particularly for women, who will increasingly lack access to female doctors and nurses—an issue made more severe by the Taliban's own gender segregation norms. It reflects not only a discriminatory policy but a deliberate effort to erase women from public and professional spaces, further entrenching their subordination under Taliban rule.