Ayaz Gul VOA News August 18, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The World Health Organization has warned that a lack of funding and resources to support Afghanistan’s health care system threatens millions of lives in a country ravaged by decades of instability and natural disasters. Through its new alert launched Friday, the WHO urged the global community to
Reuters: “Although we continue to engage with government ministries, donors, and organisations to find alternative sustainable support mechanisms for the hospital sector, the phase-out of the Hospital Program is expected to happen tentatively at the end of August,” Diogo Alcantara, ICRC’s spokesperson for Afghanistan, told Reuters on Thursday. “The ICRC does not have the mandate
Ariana: The Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday that since the beginning of this year, nearly 6,000 people across the country have been treated for hepatitis. The ministry officials presented the statistics during a meeting on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day. Habibullah Akhundzadah, deputy minister of public health services, said migrations, natural disasters, a
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 31, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan and Pakistan have reported a very small number of polio infections in their region this year, fueling expectations the neighboring countries could be just months away from interrupting the endemic transmission of the crippling virus. Pakistani authorities have reported a three-year-old child with paralytic polio, the
Tolo News: The WHO in a recent report said that Acute Watery Diarrhea and Crimean–Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) cases increased in June. “The CCHF-associated deaths were reported from 12 provinces (13 from Kabul, 6 from Balkh, 3 from Parwan, 3 from Takhar, 2 from Jawzjan, 2 from Kandahar, and 1 each from Baghlan, Faryab, Ghazni,
Ariana: A total of 47 people have died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. WHO in a report said that the total number of CCHF cases in Afghanistan during the period was 494 in 32 provinces. Out of total cases (494),
Tolo News: Doctors in the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul said that the number of children affected by malnutrition has recently increased in this hospital. According to the doctors, within the past two weeks, 45 malnourished children have been admitted to the hospital. “The patients who are having health issues, we are hospitalizing them.
8am: The country’s economic crisis, escalating poverty and unemployment, a culture of impunity, and the lack of rule of law, coupled with Taliban restrictions, have contributed to a surge in youth suicides. Statistics from the last 20 days reveal that 18 individuals have taken their own lives across 11 provinces. Among them, six were women
Ariana: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says a polio vaccination case response campaign will be implemented in the eastern region of Afghanistan, which includes Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces, and the plan is to inoculate 1.2 million children. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Doctors at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kabul said that Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) cases have increased in recent days. Doctors said that after Eid al-Adha, they admitted nearly fifteen suspected patients to the hospital each day. “Our cases are increasing day by day, approximately 10 to 15 people have suspicious symptoms of