Struggling with abject poverty, some residents of western Badghis provinces say they cannot purchase medicines from market, urging the government to supply medicines to the provincial hospital. Jamila, mother of a three-year-old child who is suffering from pneumonia,…
The European Union (EU) has delivered 100 tons of life-saving medicines and medical equipment to Afghanistan. A EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight carrying about 100 tons of life-saving supplies landed in Kabul on Wednesday to support the most…
Customs officials in southern Kandahar province have rejected traders’ claims that their medicine imports are delayed for months due to the protracted process of customs clearance. The Kandahar Customs director says the customs clearance process of medicines has…
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has provided medicines worth 7.5 million afghanis to the Public Health Department of northern Jawzjan province. Qari ZabihullahHussani, Jawzjan public health director, told Pajhwok Afghan News the medicines were handed…
People are happy with free test facilities and medicines provided to patients at the Antani and Ataturk hospitals in Kabul, while the Ministry of Public Health says free health services are provided in all government hospitals except some.…
Afghanistan Pharmaceutical Services Union (APSU) says imports of medicines have fallen to zero following restrictions on banks that resulted in depletion of all medicine supplies, warning of a humanitarian crisis if the problem is not solved. After the…
KABUL Medicine Importers Association on Saturday said 70 containers loaded with medicines remained parked at the customs office in southern Kandahar province since two months. The association members called on acting Public Health Minister Ahmad Jawad Osmani and complained about…
Two tons of date expired medicines were set alight in western Nimroz province on Thursday, an official said. Nimroz Public Health Director Dr. Farid Ahmad Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News their investigative team had discovered and confiscated the…
KABUL A MAIL statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said the expired medicines had been seized and collected by MAIL’s general directorate personnel for animal health from different areas of Kabul city. It said the torched medicines worth 350,000 afghanis.…
KABUL (MoPH) on Tuesday said it would install five new laboratories to test quality of imported medicines. MoPH officials said around 10,000 drug stores were run without pharmacists and 93 percent of medicines were imported to the country without their…
Date expired and low quality medicines, food products and alcoholic beverages weighing four tons were set alight at an official event in southeastern Khost province on Thursday. Governor Hakam Khan Habibi, who attended the event, told Pajhwok…
KABUL (MoPH) on Tuesday said all required medicines for the public health and security sectors would be purchased from authentic national and international companies totally costing up to $180 million annually. Dr. Waheed Majrooh, the Public Health Ministry spokesman, told…
KABUL (MoPH) on Sunday formally launched “National Medical Products Authority (NMPA)” to help prevent expired medicines from being imported to the country. Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz said the authority had been constituted in to halt imports of low quality…
KABUL Pharmacists Services Union (APSU) on Sunday announced ban on import of Pakistani manufactured medicines as a protest against what they alleged Islamabad’s sustained support militants’ groups carrying out attacks in Afghanistan. “In the backdrop of recent terrorist attacks, the…
