医生告诉《每日电讯报》,塔利班禁止角膜移植后,阿富汗每年将有数百人被拒于挽救视力的手术之外。
Hundreds of people each year will be denied sight-saving operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban forbade corneal transplants, doctors have told the Telegraph.
官员裁定,移植手术不符合伊斯兰教义,并下令外科医生停止手术。
Officials have ruled that the transplant procedure is not permitted under Islamic teachings and have ordered surgeons to halt operations.
这是该政权自2021年掌权以来,发布的一系列限制医疗服务获取的法令中的最新一项。
It is the latest in a stream of edicts limiting access to health care issued by the regime since it swept to power in 2021.
该禁令出台仅几个月前,一家医疗慈善机构还曾帮助培训当地医生在阿富汗首都喀布尔和东部城市贾拉拉巴德开展手术。
The edict came just months after a medical charity had helped train up local doctors to conduct operations in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the eastern city of Jalalabad.
医生表示,阿富汗对角膜移植有严重需求,以恢复因爆炸和事故受伤患者的视力。
Doctors say there is a severe need for corneal transplants in Afghanistan to restore sight in patients injured in explosions and accidents.
喀布尔努尔眼科医院的努尔·扎曼·哈希姆医生说,在塔利班下令叫停项目前,其员工近几个月已完成90例移植。
Dr Noor Zaman Hashim of Noor Eye Hospital in Kabul said his staff had conducted 90 transplants in recent months, before the programme had been halted by the Taliban order.
他说,医院的等候名单不断增长,主要是因创伤、受伤、爆炸和焊接相关事故而失明的年轻人。
He said the hospital had a growing waiting list, comprising mostly young people who had lost their eyesight because of trauma, injuries, explosions and welding-related accidents.
“数十年的暴力摧毁了阿富汗的医疗基础设施。我们既没有足够的眼科医生,也没有本地可用的角膜来满足移植需求,”他说。
“Decades of violence have devastated Afghanistan’s healthcare infrastructure. We neither have sufficient ophthalmologists nor locally available corneas to meet the demand for transplants,” he said.
“塔利班已口头指示我们停止移植。由于面临严厉惩罚的风险,没人有胆量违抗他们的命令,”他说。
“The Taliban have verbally instructed us to stop the transplants. Nobody has the courage to defy their orders because of the risk of severe punishment,” he said.