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Meena Rasooli (left) an obstetrician-gynecologist for the Rabia Balkhi Maternity Hospital, examines a patient's chart while Jamila, a midwife, checks her blood pressure at the hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 9. The U.S. departments of Defense and Health and Human Services invested a combined $10 million into renovations, then presented the hospital to Afghanistan's minister of public health in a formal ceremony April 9. Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Rojek, USAF

Meena Rasooli (left) an obstetrician-gynecologist for the Rabia Balkhi Maternity Hospital, examines a patient's chart while Jamila, a midwife, checks her blood pressure at the hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 9. The U.S. departments of Defense and Health and Human Services invested a combined $10 million into renovations, then presented the hospital to Afghanistan's minister of public health in a formal ceremony April 9. Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Rojek, USAF

Meena Rasooli (left) an obstetrician-gynecologist for the Rabia Balkhi Maternity Hospital, examines a patient's chart while Jamila, a midwife, checks her blood pressure at the hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 9. The U.S. departments of Defense and Health and Human Services invested a combined $10 million into renovations, then presented the hospital to Afghanistan's minister of public health in a formal ceremony April 9. Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Rojek, USAF

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