Around 12.6 million children under the age of five will be vaccinated during the first round of the spring polio campaign, which is set to begin in most provinces of the country within the next two days.
The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the Afghan Health and Development Organisation (AHDO) have provided medical equipment and medicines to some health centres in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Monday.
An American charity has donated medical equipment to the main regional hospital in eastern Nangarhar province to help reduce mother-child mortality rates, an official said on Monday.
Some cupping practitioners have claimed that cupping is a traditional treatment method and could cure various diseases to which physicians also agreed if professionally executed otherwise the practice could pose risks.
The residents of Jalgai district in northern Baghlan province have demanded the operationalization of a 30-bed hospital the construction of which completed eight years ago.
An orthopedic specialist at the Waziri Mohammad Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul has called traditional methods of treating fractures by bone setters dangerous, urging people to seek medical treatment at health centers for bone fracture treatment.
Some residents of Nimroz complain about sales of low-quality and expired medicine in Zaranj, the capital of northwestern province, urging the government to crack down on the sales of such drugs.
The number of children suffering from malnutrition in central Panjshir province has decreased by nearly 20 percent during the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year.
Some people in the capital Kabul sell swan oil for bone pain relief, but physicians said the lubricant was not a remedy for bone pain but it could cause skin and other health issues.
