Free medical camp organised for teachers, students

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of teachers and students will receive free health services in capital Kabul.

Omaid Subhan, head of the health and sport committee of the Afghanistan Education Coalition, inaugurated a medical camp at Azadi High School in Khairkhana area.

He said the objective of the medical camp was to provide free health services to Kabul-based teachers, and students.

He added neurosurgeons; dentists and other doctors visited the school and examined students and teachers.

Patients who did not need to undergo tests were provided medicines and those needing tests referred to public and private hospitals.

Omaid Subhan said the medical camp would facilitate the delivery of free health services to about 2,000 teachers and students.

Abdul Bashir Sadat, principal of the school, said the Education Support Coalition had been cooperating with them in areas of sports, culture, capacity building and health for the past two years.

He believed holding such camps was fruitful and a majority of staff and students benefited from free medical services.

Most of families were suffering from economic problems and could not afford to visit health centres for treatment, he concluded.

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