Nisrin Hader(2007) is an

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minister, gynecologist and obstetrician. She won awards for her work and in 2015 she was made a minister.

Early life

Oryakhil was born in 1964 in

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.Nasrin Oryakhil
, Molsamd.gov, Retrieved 17 July 2016

Career

She is a gynecologist and obstetrician, and since 2004 she has been the Director of the Malalai Maternity Hospital in

, Afghanistan. She founded inside that hospital the first clinic for obstetric

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repair in Afghanistan. She is the president of the NGO Afghan Family Health Association, and a member of the Afghan Women's Network, as well as part of the group whose task is to create a Medical Council in Afghanistan. She also supported the creation of the Afghan Midwives Association.

Politics

In 2015 she was made a minister for Labor in Afghanistan. She was one of four women amongst the last sixteen additions to

Ashraf Ghani Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban. Born in L ...

's government of national unity. Other candidates had to withdraw and these last additions were intended to not have dual nationality.Afghan cabinet nearly complete after months of delay
April 2015, BBC, Retrieved 17 July 2016 On 12 November 2016, she was dismissed from the office by the Afghan parliament.

Awards

She received a 2014

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award.

References

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