KABUL (PAN): Despite fund shortage, treatment of drug addicts would be increased from the current six percent to 48 percent over next four years, an official told the upper house on Tuesday.
MAIMANA (PAN): In a new anti-girl education incident, as many as 75 schoolgirls of a middle school fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in the Shirin Tagab district of northern Faryab province on Tuesday, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): A Pakistani trust is organising a surgical mission at the Isteqlal Hospital in Kabul from May 18 -24 to perform free of cost surgeries on more than 200 cleft lip and palate patients.
KABUL (PAN): The mortality rate among mothers and infants has dropped in Afghanistan as a result of increasing number of health facilities for them across the country, the Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday.
ASADABAD (PAN): A polio case has been detected in the Khas Kunar district of eastern Kunar province, where authorities decided to execute fresh polio campaigns, an official said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Finance and the World Bank on Monday signed a id="mce_marker"00 million grant for funding the Afghanistan System Enhancement for Health Action in Transition (SEHAT) Program.
KABUL (PAN): Croatia has agreed to provide $400,000 for the establishment of a midwifery centre in northern Balkh province, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
