KABUL CITY (PAN): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to fund the training of 4,000 midwives in Afghanistan over the next five years, while a similar number is currently engaged in local healthcare centres, an official said on Monday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had temporarily suspended its activities in a leading hospital in southern Kandahar province after a bomb was found and defused at the hospital’s parking lot, an official said on Sunday.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Sick women and children continue to face medical crisis due to shortage of female doctors in southern Ghazni province, forcing authorities to shift patients to hospitals in the city.
KABUL (PAN): The numbers of blood donors has been on the rise in Afghanistan since 2002, the Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday, urging youths to make more donations and thereby save the lives of their compatriots.
KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan National Standards Authority (ANSA) chief on Sunday said they had set 125 different benchmarks, but lacked product certification facilities.
JALALABAD (PAN): A total of 11,273 people in the eastern province of Nangarhar have donated blood to the public health department’s blood bank over the past one year, an official said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): The National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) on Tuesday announced a four-year national strategy for biodiversity, and set in motion the process of its implementation.
JALALABAD (PAN): Public health officials in eastern Nangarhar province said on Sunday that Taliban had promised to help an anti-polio vaccination campaign in the Narai district of Kunar and Kamdesh town of Nuristan.
JALALABAD (PAN): Doctors at the orthopedic department of Nangarhar Civil Hospital went on strike on Saturday to protest a lack of resources and medicine, an official said.
