KABUL (Pajhwok): A cancer surgery and admission department has been opened in Kabul’s Aliabad Teaching Hospital where a well-equipped cancer treatment center is being established and an international organization has pledged $24 million in aid for the purpose.
Dr. Abdul Mutallib Shinwari, the Aliabad hospital head, said at the cancer surgery and internal medicine department’s inaugural ceremony that the facility consumed 20.8 million afghanis and took six months to complete.
He said the Ministry of Higher Education, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization jointly funded the facility having 40 beds . . .
