An emergency airlift carrying 78.5 metric tonnes of lifesaving medical supplies from the World Health Organization (WHO) logistics hub in Dubai has arrived in Afghanistan.
Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industry Mawlavi Ahmadullah Zahid has said that the pharmaceutical industry has made significant development in the past three years and asked people to buy locally produced medicines.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Acting Public Health Minister Noor Jalal Jalali has left for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to participate in a conference on Antimicrobial Resistance. The kingdom
Physicians have dismissed the fear of some people regarding diabetes whose parents have suffered from this disease saying the hereditary nature of diabetes could not be necessarily true.
Health officials in northern Samangan say the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has donated medical equipment worth $50,000 to the main provincial hospital.
German charity Peace Village has contributed 40,000 euro in cash aid for treatment of children with burns and bone fractures and says it will continue its donations with the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS).
Officials at the police headquarters say they have rounded up dozens of drug addicts from the streets of Jalalabad city and sent them to Kabul for treatment.
The Department of Neurosurgery of the Aliabad Teaching Hospital has successfully performed the brain cyst surgery of a 56-year-old patient, a statement said on Sunday.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Forty-five children with burn and bone infection have returned to the country after being treated in Germany and another 89 children are .
