The report says there are 4.6 medical professionals to every 10,000 people in Afghanistan; the World Health Organization considers 23 medical professionals to 10,000 people a critical shortage. What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61 per cent to 72 per cent of Afghan women, who live in poverty, the report said.
A doctor briefs the mother of a malnourished child about how to feed her baby in a ward at Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul in August 2019. (Rafiq Maqbool/The Associated Press)
It also noted that Afghan women often have more children than they want because they lack access to modern contraception, face risky pregnancies because of lack of care and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to modern techniques.
The administrative decision maker must demonstrate that its interpretation of the relevant provisions is consistent with their text, context and purpose, Chief Justice Marc Noel said. Here this demonstration is totally lacking.
The case arose in 2017, when Dr. David Kattenburg, of Winnipeg, raised concerns that wines produced by Psagot and Shiloh Winery, located in the West Bank, were from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, not Israel itself. He argued the wines should not, under Canadian law, be branded as Product of Israel.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency initially sided with him. However, the agency reversed course after some Jewish groups protested and Global Affairs Canada said the West Bank could be considered Israeli territory under the Canada-Israel free trade agreement.
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