FMIC, AKU to train Afghan doctors
People walk past the FMIC health facility in Kabul which is managed by Aga Khan University. Photo: express
In the face of a serious shortage of specialised healthcare workers in Afghanistan, the French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC) has inducted 28 Afghan doctors, 10 women and 18 men, in the fresh cohort of its Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) programme.
It's the highest number of residents inducted in a cohort, in the history of the programme over a decade.
Initiated in partnership with the Afghan Ministry of Public Health and the Aga Khan University (AKU) in 2012, the programme has so far graduated 74 specialist doctors, including Afghanistan's first female specialists in pathology, radiology, paediatric surgery, and anaesthesia.
FMIC, which is managed by AKU, is a partnership of the governments of Afghanistan and France, La Chaîne de l'Espoir and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2022.