Tolo News: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Public Health and BRS Ventures, a UAE-based company, has been signed in the presence of President Ashraf Ghani over the semi-privatization of two Kabul hospitals – Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital and Sheikh Zayed Hospital. A number of doctors at Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital were not however
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A new round of a polio immunization campaign went into action Monday in Afghanistan amid concerns insurgent bans could possibly deprive hundreds of thousands of children from receiving the vaccine. During the five-day campaign, officials say, about 52,000 Afghan vaccinators will visit 6.4 million children under the
Tolo News: A batch of supposedly leaked documents reveals that a number of projects related to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) were monopolized by a private firm called Governance in Afghanistan (GIA) which had been founded and chaired by the serving minister of health Ferozuddin Feroz. The leaked papers also suggest that recently GIA made new
Tolo News: Firuzuddin Firuz, the minister of public health, has said that more than three million people in Afghanistan do not have access to health services. “The rates of health care for women and children improved and communicable diseases are on the decline, but the scope of health care is still insufficient”, said Firuz. Five provinces in the
Khaama Press: The Afghan Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz has narrowly escaped a possible HIV infection after he was attacked with a syringe by a drug addict, officials said Sunday. According to officials, the attack was pre-planned by those who are oppossed to shifting drug addicts from the city to a rehabilitation center. Click here to read more