8am: The Taliban government has recently dismissed all public health directors in 34 provinces. The Ministry of Public Health has also nominated new directors affiliated with the Taliban to replace public health directors in the provinces. Meanwhile, some former public health managers told Hasht-e Subh that most of the public health chiefs appointed by the
Tolo News: As the omicron variant is spreading fast across the world and some neighboring countries, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) said that the World Health Organization (WHO) has been asked to provide the omicron’s testing kits for Afghanistan. Reports stated that the omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in Iran and Pakistan, both
Ariana: Jawid Hazhir, a spokesman for the MoPH, stated: “Four positive cases [of poliovirus] were recorded of which three cases were registered in Kunduz province and another positive case was reported in Ghazni province.” A number of Afghan doctors stated that the Kunduz outbreak was due to insecurity and lack of health care services which
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said the number of patients diagnosed with cancer has increased in state hospitals, saying that 13,500 patients diagnosed with cancer have been recorded since the beginning of the 1400 solar year. According to health officials, health care services are deteriorating every day as state hospitals face the
Ariana: Two million doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the US, Austria, and Italy arrived in Afghanistan this week, the UNICEF said in a tweet. “We thank our donors for helping us keep health workers, teachers, and vulnerable groups safe,” UNICEF tweeted. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The health official claims that the implementation of the corona vaccine in Parwan province with the exception of Kabul has been higher than in other provinces, saying that about 15 percent of people over the age of 18 had been vaccinated in different parts of the province. Click here to read more (external link).
NPR: Spiegel and other observers say sanctions imposed by the U.N. are the reason. Many countries that previously contributed huge sums to Afghanistan have stopped donating. The idea behind the sanctions is to encourage the Taliban, which took over in August, to abandon the kinds of human rights abuses that marked their previous turn in
8am: A three-day polio vaccine campaign has been launched in Nimruz province, local sources say. “The implementation of the polio vaccine has been very effective in preventing the spread of polio,” said Mullah Abdul Rahman Abdullah, head of the Nimruz Public Health Department to Hasht-e Subh. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: With the rise of the Taliban, officials at drug treatment centers in Herat say that the process of providing services and treating addicts in these centers has dropped by nearly 50 percent. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: US Special Representative Thomas West stated in a tweet that the assistance will be provided through COVAX, a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Click here to read more (external link).