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.
Some 1,450 prisoners in northern Balkh province have received health kits with the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), local officials said on Monday.
Some residents in the capital Kabul say they and their family members have been infected with eye infections while physicians termed eye infection a contagious disease and urged patients to refer to the doctor as soon as possible.
Gynecologists want prospective couples to visit doctors for blood tests before getting married in order to prevent possible congenital disorders in their children.
The father of sextuplets in northern Jawzjan province says that the office of the acting prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has provided him with 250,000 afs assistance after all his six babies died.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide and most such cases are self-detected in those who do not undergo regular mammography.
A polio vaccination drive has been launched in the 16 provinces of the country in which 6.2 million children would be administered vaccine against polio, a statement said on Monday.
A three-day polio vaccination drive, targeting 836,000 children below five years of age, has kicked off in eastern Nangarhar province, an official announced on Monday.
