Health

A polio vaccination campaign has been launched in 18 provinces of Afghanistan, aiming to vaccinate 7.3 million children under the age of five.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister for Counter-Narcotics urged the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to support alternative livelihoods for farmers and treatment for

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and representatives of international organisations on Tuesday emphasised the need to strengthen the capacity of health workers and ensure timely and accessible healthcare services for children and mothers.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed regret over the United States’ formal notification of withdrawal from the global health body, warning the decision would make both the US and the world less safe.

A mobile health team of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) would travel to southeastern Khost province to provide free eye treatment for 12 days.

Aqila Mohammadi, a young midwife in central Daikundi province who successfully assisted in more than 400 deliveries over the past four years, says she feels the greatest sense of peace when reduces a mother’s pain and helps deliver a healthy baby.

Following the suspension of medicine imports from Pakistan to Afghanistan, a number of health experts say a large portion of these medicines lack are substandard and therapeutically ineffective, while some Kabul residents have lauded the import halt.

Some residents of remote areas in the Bandar and Lulash districts of northern Faryab province have raised concerns about the lack of health centres and the inaccessibility of roads. They say that to transfer patients to clinics in district centres, they are often forced to travel for hours along difficult routes using horses or mules—a situation that, in some cases, has resulted in loss of life.

he Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue, Prevention of Vice have identified nearly 6,000 mental health patients over the past three months and referred them to provincial offices of the Afghan Red Crescent Society.

KABUL (Pajhwok): India’s Minister of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change has assured the Afghan government of his country’s continued commitment to supporting the health security

Minister of Public Health Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali and India’s Minister of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) have discussed a range of issues, including the establishment of a traditional medicine institute and research centre in Kabul.

India has sent medical aid to Afghanistan, including cancer medicines, vaccines, and a 128-slice CT scan machine, as part of its ongoing humanitarian support.