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Farah hospital employees’ salaries robbed

Gunmen robbed the provincial civil hospital in western Farah province of employees’ salaries amounting to 760,000 afghanis, an official said on Monday. The official in the civil hospital in Farah City spoke on the condition of anonymity.…

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Child killed, 8 injured as mortar hits Wardak hospital

KABUL-fired mortar strike on the civil hospital in the capital of central Madian Wardak province on Wednesday. The Taliban militants fired mortars into Maidan Shahr city targeting security posts on the Kabul-Kandahar and Maidan Shahr-Bamyan highways this morning. A provincial…

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Emergency ward inaugurated at Paktia hospital

The newly-established emergency ward at the civil hospital in southeastern Paktia has been put into service. Separately, construction work on a boundary wall around the teacher training college in eastern Laghman province has been launched, officials said on…

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USAID hands over 2 hospitals to Public Health Ministry

KABUL (MoPH) in Paktia and Paktika provinces. A 100-bed hospital in Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia, and a 20-bed facility in Zarghun Shahr district of Paktika were built by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), with funding from USAID.…

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MoD to punish persons leaking hospital video to media

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Saturday said it would punish those who shared a video clip showing a woman gives to birth her child in the courtyard of a major hospital in Kabul. A private television on…

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Cancer diagnostic centre being established in Nangarhar

The public health director on Thursday promised a cancer diagnostic centre would be inaugurated at the Nangarhar Civil Hospital in Jalalabad next week. While presenting an annual report on the public health situation, Dr. Najibullah Kamawal told a…

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28pc of work on 350-bed Kandahar hospital completed

Twenty-eight percent of construction work on a 350-bed hospital in southern Kandahar province has been completed, officials said on Friday. With the completion of the hospital, health facilities would be provided for people of the entire southern…

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US investigating Kunduz hospital bombing: Pentagon

The United States is investigating reports its airstrikes hit a medical facility in the capital of northern Kunduz province, the Pentagon said on Saturday. At least nine people died and 37 were seriously injured when US airstrikes hit…

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Polyclinic opens at Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital

A polyclinic at the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospitalin Kabul, constructed with financial support from India, was inaugurated on Thursday, officials said. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Public Health Minister Dr. Firozuddin Firoz, Indian Ambassador Amir Sinha…

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Militants blow up under-construction Badakhshan hospital

Taliban have torched an under-construction hospital building in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Friday. Deputy police chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News that hundreds of armed rebels stormed police check posts late on…

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State-run hospitals in Kabul faced with medicine shortage

Citing acute shortages of medicines, most government hospitals in capital Kabul refused to give medicines to patients, a doctor said on Wednesday. A formidable development which prompted the Ministry of Finance to pledge that the problem would be…

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Hospital construction work resumes in Uruzgan

Construction work on a 50-bed hospital in the capital of central Uruzgan province has resumed after it was halted six years ago, the acting governor said on Sunday. Amanullah Taimuri told the inauguration ceremony that the construction company…

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President inquires after health of Kabul’s blast victims

KABUL of the Kabul’s blast victims, a statement from the Presidential Palace has said. A suicide bomber smashed his explosive-laden vehicle into the building of National Directorate of Security (NDS) close to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in capital Kabul…