BAMYAN CITY (PAN): The health condition of three hunger strikers is said to be deteriorating as their protest entered a third day on Tuesday, with their number increasing from four to more than a dozen in the central province of Bamyan, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): Forty-three Afghan children with burn injuries and bone cracks returned home on Sunday from six months of treatment Germany, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): Some health centers, failing to provide proper services, have been closed and 350 tonnes of substandard medicine torched, the public health minister announced on Saturday.
ASADABAD (PAN): More than 21,000 children could not be reached out for administering polio drops in a number of towns in eastern Kunar province owing to insecurity, officials said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): A fresh anti-polio vaccination campaign, targeting 860,000 children below five years, began in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): Twenty-four girls from remote districts in eastern Laghman province have been enrolled to a newly-inaugurated school for community health nursing education, the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): Public Health Minister Dr. Suraya Dalil on Tuesday said her ministry was nearing an agreement with the Agha Khan Foundation on assisting operation costs at the Chinese-rebuilt Jamhoriat Hospital for next 15 years.
KHOST CITY (PAN): Khost public health director on Sunday accused the Health Net International (HNI), of failing to recruit female doctors for more than a dozen hospitals under a contract requirement.
MAIMANA (PAN): Doctors at the Afghan-Turk Hospital in northern Faryab province on Sunday stopped seeing patients following police misbehaved with some of their colleagues.
