ASADABAD (PAN): Public heath officials on Satuday said they had launched a new round of anti-polio campaign to immunise 21,000 left over kids below the age of five in eastern Kunar province that borders Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region.
KABUL (PAN): Second-Vice President Mohammad Karim Khalili on Tuesday acknowledged that efforts to combat drug trade and arrest and punish those involved had been far from satisfactory.
JALALABAD (PAN): A three-day anti-polio campaign, targeting 86,000 children below the age of five years, began in eastern provinces on Sunday, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday said it had handed over "life-saving medical equipment" worth $52,000 to the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul.
KABUL (PAN): The World Bank on Thursday approved a id="mce_marker"00 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) to help the Afghan government expand the scope, quality and c
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of rehabilitated drug addicts are undergoing a nine-month vocational training course in two provinces, officials said on Wednesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Fifteen doctors of the Nangarhar Civil Hospital on Wednesday boycotted work due to lack of facilities and threats from local officials.
QALAT (PAN): Authorities in southern Zabul province, complaining of a shortage of qualified public health staff, say nurses are working instead of doctors at hospitals in three districts.
JALALABAD (PAN): Patients who visit the civil hospital in Mehtarlam, the capital of eastern Laghman province, return without being properly examined or provided with medicine, it is learnt.
