LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): As many as 1,000 children suffered from measles in southern Helmand province last year out of which 30 died, an official said on Saturday.
Dr. Ahmad Zia Hayat, head of the Contagious Disease Section at the Public Health Department during an exclusive interview, told Pajhwok Afghan News measles cases increased in Helmand over the past year.
He added: “In the last solar year --- 1402 --- as many as 1,000 children suffering from measles had been hospitalized in Central Bust Hospital and health centres in the districts.”
He said in the first 15 days of the new solar . . .
