'Top-notch' care eludes Afghan hospital
Dr. Jeff Whittall, a pediatrician, teaches neonatal resuscitation at Rabia Balkhi Hospital in the summer of 2006. Whittall said he tried to improve care in the hospital's nursery. "We had between five and 20 babies at a time. I must admit that newborn deaths were commonplace, and thus staff thought nothing of having three babies in a crib and two corpses on a steel rack on the bottom of the crib," he said, noting he thought they were doing the best they could under the circumstances. .
