TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Health officials in central Uruzgan province on Wednesday said measles cases among children in the province had increased in absence of vaccination.
Dr. Abdul Ghafar Watanwal, head of Uruzgan Provincial Hospital, in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News said that 70 percent of children who were brought to the hospital were infected with measles.
He said 491 children with measles were admitted to the hospital and three of whom died in the last three months.
He said that despite emergency treatment of these patients in the hospital, some of them lost their lives as they reached the . . .
