Patients complaining on poor-quality medicines in Kabul
By: Shukria Kohistani Selling low-quality medicines in some parts of the capital Kabul has seriously concerned the people. They ask the ministry of public health...
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Afghans still spending millions of dollars for treatment abroad
By: Shukria Kohistani KABUL: Thousands of Afghans are still spending millions of afghanis for the treatment of their patients abroad, as they blame the government...
MoPH concerned on addicts’ increase
By: Shukria Kohistani Calling the government’s 17-year program as failed to fight narcotics’ cultivation and trafficking, the minister of public health expressed concern on increase...
Home treatment to quit drug addiction not effective, Doctors
By: Shukria Kohistani Treatment of drug addicts outside health centers would cause the addicts to resume using narcotics. The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)...
After 18 years of ‘liberating’ war, Afghanistan’s children are starving to death
By: Monitoring Desk Using his thumbs, Dr Nesar Ahmed Timory began compressing the chest of three-month-old Safiullah at 10.23am on Tuesday. Safiullah was severely malnourished....
MoPH launches first National Cancer Symposium in Kabul
KABUL: The country’s Ministry of Public Health has launched the first National Breast Cancer Symposium in Kabul, the ministry said in a statement Sunday. The...
New polio case reported from Eastern region
By: The Kabul Times A new polio case has been reported from Watapur District of Kunar Province which permanently paralyzed a 3 months old male...
Children’s nutrition at risk in Afghanistan
By: Monitoring Desk Among the 2 million children under the age of five years who are suffering from acute malnutrition, 600,000 children are currently suffering...
Increment of women, children mal-nutrition concerning, MoPH
By: Shukria Kohistani The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) expressed its concern about increment of number of women and children who are suffering from mal-nutrition in...
World Health Day marked in Kabul
KABUL: Afghan Ministry of Public Health, the other day, commemorated the International Health Day (WHD) that falls on April 7 annually. The main theme of...