Photos: Looking back at life inside a Kabul maternity ward

A mother kisses her newborn baby’s hand at the MSF-run maternity center in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul.

Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF

At the MSF maternity center in Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, a health worker offers assistance in the kangaroo mother care unit, where premature or low-birthweight infants get essential skin-to-skin contact.

Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF

Dasht-e-Barchi hospital staff take a patient to the operating room for a Caesarean section. The hospital is the only facility for emergency and complicated deliveries in this Kabul neighborhood with a population of over one million.

Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel

A baby receives neonatal care at Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital.

Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel

A grandmother tickles her grandchild in the newborn unit of Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital.

Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF

An MSF health promoter holds an information session for men in the waiting room of Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, where teams run a busy maternity center.

Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel