MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): About 54,000 people have been infected with different skin diseases in northern Balkh province during the past one year, an official said on Tuesday.
Dr. Ali Asghar Malik, beauty and skin diseases department head in the zonal hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News 54,000 people with various skin diseases approached the hospital last year.
According to him, only 16,000 of these people were infected with scabies and most of them recovered after treatment.
Dr. Ali Asghar said people would be infected with more such disease if they did not protect themselves from unclean water . . .
