French President Jacques Chirac's wife Bernadette Brick lays the first of the "Hospital of the mother and child", the first hospital devoted to mothers and children in Kaboul, Afghanistan on May 27, 2003.

AFGHANISTAN - MAY 27: From left to right : Pr - Deloche, Bernadette Chirac, Dr - Nilab Mobarez, and a child who will be sent to the Pompidou Hospital in Paris - Another child will benefit from the same treatment in Kaboul, Afghanistan on May 27, 2003.. (Photo by Raphael GAILLARDE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)