Children

A pediatric specialist has described anemia in children as a serious problem, warning that if not diagnosed and treated promptly, it can jeopardize all vital systems and organs.

Some women and child labourers in northern Balkh province have complained about low wages and lack of work opportunities and asked the government to provide them with permanent work.

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Two children drowned in river and died in central Logar province separately, police said on Saturday. Police spokesman Ahmadullah Anas told . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Public Health Department officials in eastern Nangarhar province say about 2,519 children with measles were hospitalized in last 15 months in the .

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The number of children working in brick kilns has decreased in eastern Nangarhar province, says the Labor and Social Affairs Department. Previously 130

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Dozens of children of returning refugee families have been enrolled in schools in Dehdadi district of northern Balkh province, an official . . .

In Afghanistan, one in five children are engaged in child labor and the number of such children is high in Khost, Bamyan and Helmand provinces and less in Kabul, Badakhshan and Laghman provinces.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Afghan repatriated families in eastern Nangarhar province have expressed concerns about the education of their children and asked government to provided education facilities

PARAKH (Pajhwok): Seventeen children have been rescued from being smuggled to Iran in central Panjsher province, police official said on Friday. Police spokesman Ebadullah Ebad

KABUL (Pajhwok): The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recorded 4,752 pediatric firearm deaths in the United States in 2021. The Centers for Disease .

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Doctors at the provincial hospital in northern Baghlan province say 86 children died of different diseases, particularly diarrhea, in the past . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has recommended 28 children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) for treatment and surgeries to a Kabul hospital