Date: 29/07/1404
Hospital or torture center; female doctors are fed up with the Taliban's systematic humiliation.A number of female doctors in Afghanistan say they are fed up with the restrictions imposed by the Taliban. The doctors have accused the Taliban of misogynistic attitudes and ethnic discrimination, and say the group even interferes in the work of female doctors, including the use of women's toilets. According to these doctors, the Taliban's actions to promote virtue and prevent vice in hospitals have made the work environment so difficult that they are thinking of quitting their jobs. The doctors added that the Taliban's Dawa and guidance officials have made the work environment in hospitals cloudy and turned health centers into torture centers and nightmares for female doctors. They emphasize that doctors need mental and psychological peace of mind to provide effective services, but the Taliban's motives for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice have destroyed this atmosphere by humiliating, insulting, and even insulting. Sources add that the officials of Dawah and Guidance in hospitals, without observing the administrative hierarchy, call female doctors to their offices under various pretexts, where they humiliate, insult, and even insult them. These doctors emphasize that the mullahs of these institutions should not interfere in their work affairs and create an atmosphere of fear and psychological pressure, and challenge the process of treating patients and providing health services. In an interview with Hasht-e Subh newspaper, some female doctors said that the Taliban's abusive behaviors, violent and misogynistic attitudes forced them to leave their jobs. A number of these doctors, while expressing their problems with tears and throats full of hatred, say that the presence of the promotion of virtue in hospitals has turned these centers into torture centers and field courts against female doctors. One of the doctors, who did not want to be named in the report, recounts the humiliating treatment of the Taliban's muhtasib as follows: "Tonight I am a servant, the enjoining of virtue summoned me, it made me dehydrated. With such behavior and treatment, how can a doctor do a job? In such a situation, is it possible for a doctor to work? I really don't know what to do or what to do. The Taliban's promotion of virtue and prevention of vice treated me in a very ugly and humiliating manner that cannot really be declared." "What is the position of a mullah in the hospital? Why do they interfere so much in the affairs of a specialized institution that they even decide on toilets for female doctors? A doctor in a hospital needs a calm mind to be able to care for patients effectively and appropriately. How can a doctor who is under stress provide quality health care to patients? I really hate life and I'm tired of it." Another doctor, who also did not want to be named in the report, said: "The Taliban have made the work space so cramped and restricted that in my 30 to 35 years of medical experience, I have never experienced such a difficult and breathtaking situation. "They are setting the situation in such a way that we are forced to leave the hospitals."

These female doctors also accuse the Taliban of anti-Semitism in government hospitals in addition to misogyny, saying that the group has greatly fueled ethnic issues and narrowed the work space for the provision of health services in all respects. According to them, doctors serve without any discrimination and in white clothes to treat patients' wounds, but the white Taliban defile them with ethnic and misogynistic clothing. One of the female doctors, who has been humiliated and insulted by the Taliban, says that she has been targeted by the group's muhtases because of her ethnicity. "The problem is that I am a Persian speaker and I am from the north. Where is that criminal court that hears the silenced voice of a generation that has served for many years and is humiliated today?" Earlier, a number of female doctors in Kandahar Province said they were fed up with the Taliban's harassment due to the lack of mahrams in hospitals. According to them, many female doctors have been forced to leave their jobs due to pressure from the Taliban and accusations of not observing the group's desired coverage. The doctors said that the Taliban had asked them to have a mahram in the workplace, while the Taliban themselves had banned the presence of men in the work of female doctors. The Taliban's motives for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice in hospitals have already stopped the process of operating patients and taken doctors for religious examinations. These Taliban forces have even interrupted the flow of patients' operations and have taken a religious exam from doctors. Doctors say that the Taliban's muhtes do not respect any medical principles and procedures. Since the Taliban's takeover, women and girls have been deprived of their right to education and their access to employment in health institutions has been severely restricted. Earlier, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that it would not be possible to treat women in Afghanistan without the presence of female medical staff. The organization has emphasized that the closure of health institutes for women and girls will have deadly consequences.

This entry documents reports of systematic harassment, humiliation, and interference in the work of female doctors in Afghan hospitals by officials affiliated with the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The imposition of ideological oversight, restrictions on workplace conduct, and coercive practices within medical settings reflect the extension of morality-based enforcement into the health sector, contributing to the deterioration of working conditions and the exclusion of women from professional roles.