A number of patients claim some of Rabia Balkhi Hospital staffers fleece them on various pretexts. Hospital officials, however, reject the allegation as baseless. Rabia Balkhi Hospital is one of the most popular maternity homes in Kabul, which…
Construction work was launched on Thursday on a healthcare center in the capital of southern Kandahar province, local officials said. The hospital is funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Kandahar public health director,…
The Ghazni Zonal Hospital is faced with a whole host of problems, including the shortage of medicine, fuel, electricity, food and other essential items. Hospital Director Ajab Khan Hamidi told Pajhwok Afghan News that all medicines were…
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) organization says rockets hit its Bost hospital in the capital of southern Helmand province during the ongoing conflict.
Some sources say an airstrike that targeted a private hospital in Lashkargah, capital of southern Helmand province three days ago, was carried out based on wrong coordinates. According to reports, one person was killed and two others wounded…
Health officials in northwestern Faryab province say Covid-19 Treatment Center in the province misdiagnosed patients infected with the virus and that caused many of the patients to be referred to the provincial zonal hospital while some lost their…
At least eight contracts have been inked for the supply of solar power to wards of the main hospital in northern Sar-i-Pul province. Contracts for two wards have been repeated and the one kilowatt ampere deal is 766,000…
Inaugurated three years ago, only 20 beds have so far been made available in a 50-bed hospital in the Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province owing to lack of resources. The residents of Zurmat district say the hospital…
Fifty-one items have been purchased for the Balkh Hospital and a clinic by charging 17 million afghanis extra as compared to their normal rates, Pajhwok Afghan News has learnt reliably. Among these items is a machine the normal…
The Shiekh Zayed hospital in Kabul has two 40-bedded rooms for patients’ relatives, but some attendants say they spend night in the hospital’s courtyard. A reliable source at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
For the first time, a heart surgery ward was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi Children Hospital in Kabul, with the first heart surgery due coming week, an official said. Acting Health Minister Dr. Ahmad Jawad Usmani,…
A 50-bed hospital for coronavirus patients was inaugurated in Aibak, the capital of northern Samangan province, on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Fida Mohammad Paikan said the hospital would be upgraded to 100-bed in future. He said…
Construction of building for a hospital in Waras district of central Bamyan province was started 12 years ago but local officials say it was yet to be completed. Bamyan governor says administrative corruption was behind the slow…
Local officials in central Uruzgan province accuse staff of the civil hospital of mistreating patients and illegally selling medicines and food outside. Sayed Mohammad Sadat Nasiri, Uruzgan governor deputy made these remarks while visiting the Uruzgan Civil Hospital…
President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday laid down the foundation stone of a 100-bed heart diseases treatment hospital for Afghan security forces in capital Kabul. A statement from the Presidential Palace received by Pajhwok Afghan News said President Ghani…
The Zonal Hospital of northern Kunduz province has no medicines and the patients purchase drugs from private medicine stores, local residents and the Provincial Council members said on Saturday. Hospital authorities said medicines needed for initial treatment…
After a decade-long year delay, construction work on a 50-bed hospital has been launched in Tagab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Monday. A number of the district’s residents claimed that the hospital’s foundation…
KABUL (ARCS) for the hospital equipment and treatment of patients suffering from congenital heart diseases. Mirwais Akram, deputy head of the ARCS told Pajhwok Afghan News Saudi announced the aid through a formal letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
The foundation stone of a building for a maternity section at the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital was laid on Monday in Kabul, an official said. Public Health Minister Firozuddin Firoz, who attended the ceremony, said the maternity ward…
A newly built 50-bed hospital in Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province has partially damaged due to its poor construction. The hospital, a 230 million afghanis project, was inaugurated by former Paktia governor, Zalmai Wesa, in January this…
With promises of quality services, the foundation stone of a private hospital was laid in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday. Governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News an Afghan businessman, Eng. Zarghoon Shah, was investing 50 million…
Three years have passed but construction work on a Pakistan-funded 300-bed hospital in central Logar province could not be resumed for unknown reasons. Provincial council member Haseebullah Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News construction work on the Naib Aminullah…
At least 30 people, including doctors and patients, were killed and 50 more wounded after gunmen dressed as medics stormed a military hospital in Kabul on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Maj. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a…
Construction work on a private 100-bed hospital, the first of its kind, has been launched in the capital of northern Samangan province, an official said on Thursday. Eng. Syed Yaqub Shah Roshanzada, who designed the hospital, told Pajhwok…
