TALOQAN (PAN): A 160-bed hospital is being established with the financial support of the German government in northern Takhar province, officials said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The Global Fund, an international financing organisation, on Saturday pledged $20 million in assistance to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to help control and fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria diseases in Afghanistan.
TALOQAN (PAN): At least 17 high school girls fell ill and lost consciousness after a suspected poisonous gas attack at their school in Taloqan, the capital of northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday.
BAMYAN CITY 9PAN): Doctors and medics at a 100-bed hospital in central Bamyan province on Sunday went on a hunger strike against what they called the sacking of two specialists, officials said.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Hundreds of doctors and health workers staged a hunger strike against non-payment of salaries over the past four months in northern Kunduz province on Saturday, officials said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Ten percent of children are acutely malnourished in southern Kandahar province, where six children died at hospitals last solar year as a result of malnutrition, a health official said.
