The Minister of Public Health says specialist posts will be allocated to deprived provinces, contracts of underperforming organisations will be cancelled and joint efforts intensified to eradicate polio.
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 .
Acting Minister of Public Health Maulvi Noor Jalal Jalali and Emergency President Rossella Miccio have discussed various issues, including the expansion of services and facilities for disabled patients at the hospital.
Some residents of eastern Nangarhar province have expressed concerns about the spread of Dengue fever but according to the health officials the virus posed no serious threat.
