Afghanistan today has the second
highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. After
nearly thirty years of war and occupation, the nation's medical
system has been devastated and its doctors and other medical
personnel are poorly trained. Afghans had hoped that the
U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 would bring
improvements in women's health and education, but the rights of
Afghan women to adequate healthcare are still denied.
In Motherland Afghanistan, Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika
Mojadidi vividly reveals the extent of this tragedy by
documenting the 2003 return to Afghanistan of her father, an OB/GYN
who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972, as he attempts to
rehabilitate the largest women's hospital in the country with
the promised support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
Format:
DVD
Runtime:
74 minutes Type: Drama -
Documentary Language: In
English and Afghani
with English subtitles
Picture quality:
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