Army chief underlines need for medical education

KABUL (Pajhwok): Army Chief Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat says “medical education is obligatory” as both male and female doctors are needed in Afghanistan.

The caretaker government suspended girls' education in medical institutions on December 3. However, reliable sources told Pajhwok Afghan News the following day students were allowed to take their final exams.

Fitrat told seminar at the Medical Sciences Academy of the Health Affairs Command. “The science of medicine is an obligation in any system.”

He said Afghanistan needed both male and female doctors, and everyone should serve the nation with great zeal and determination.

Dr. Mohammad Ismail Wardak, head of the Medical Sciences Academy, recalled 58 complex heart surgeries had been performed at the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan Hospital over the past five months,.

He noted that advanced medical equipment and medications worth millions of dollars were used in conducting these surgeries.

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