Work on buildings for 2 health centers begins in Logar

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Construction work on buildings for two health centers has been launched in central Logar province and the structures are estimated to cost $300,000.

Public Health Department spokesman Fahimullah Ludin told Pajhwok the United Nations refugees agency, UNCHR, had funded construction of the buildings in Choni area of Pul-i-Alam and Surkh Ab area of Mohammad Agha district.

Ludin added the building for Chona health center was being constructed on 2.5 acres of land and the building for Surkh Ab health center on one acre of land. The structures would be completed in the next eight months and would be put into service.

He said the one-storey buildings would have all necessary rooms, deep water wells, water tanks, parks, garbage bins and boundary walls.

Ludin said with construction of the buildings, the services of health workers would be doubled and the existing problems of the people would be addressed.

Syed Rahman, a resident of Chona village, said the health facility in their village had only two rooms and it provided no services at night.

He said a standard building for the health center would resolve the problems of hundreds of families in the area.

Zia Rahman, a resident of Surkh Ab area in Mohammad Agha district, told Pajhwok that he was happy that the health center in their area would have a building.

He called upon the Department of Public Health to extend the operational timing of the Surkh Ab Health Center from eight hours to 24 hours to solve the problems of the people.

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