Health

In a first, the Public Health Department in central Uruzgan province has introduced ambulance service for emergency patients.

The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has referred 70 children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) for treatment to five Kabul hospitals.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday a donation of 20 tonnes of medical supplies to Afghanistan.

Forty health workers have been sent to Iran for one-month comprehensive training in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a statement said on Saturday.

Nearly 300 doctors, including 16 women, received certificates upon completing their specialization programs in Kabul yesterday.

About 4,024 people contracted Tuberculosis (TB) and were hospitalized in northern Balkh province during the past one year, with 17 of the patients dying, an official said on Wednesday.

Over 430 free-of-cost ophthalmic surgeries conducted in western Farah province in the past 10 days, an official said on Monday.

A massive polio vaccination campaign targeting children under 10 got under way in the embattled Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.

The provincial hospital in northeastern Badakhshan province says it admitted 326 malnourished children below five years of age in the past five months and 26 of them died.

Residents of Charchino district in central Uruzgan province complain about lack of health services and ask the government to pay more attention in this regard.

More than1,600 people in the eastern zone are suffering from thalassemia and they need blood and government assistance in their treatment.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Afghanistan says the organization is responding to monkeypox as a high priority.