Health
Kabul Residents Tired of Seasonal Pollution: MPs
The members of the lower house of the parliament have summoned Minister of Commerce and Industry, Acting mayor, and chairman of the protection of the environment department for increasing of pollution in Kabul city on Saturday to provide more details over the issue.
Criticizing significantly increasing of pollution in Kabul, MPs urged that there is no plan and policy to decrease the pollution.
Member of the house Ubaidullah Ramin said, “ none quality of fuel, increasing of garbage’s and pollution in the capital city of Kabul have caused severe illness, where most of the cancer disease is coming from the pollution, demanding the Government to in place a sophisticated policy to decrease pollution.”
“Kabul mayor is responsible to protect the environment, people do need healthy environment,” Law maker Zakaria Zakaria said.
Meanwhile Minister of Commerce and Industry Humayon Rasa stated that based on the law the quality of fuel is coming into Afghanistan is the responsibility of the Afghan National Standards authority Standard Bureau, but we continue to cooperate to protect environment according to our authorities.
He said, “Based on the Law the Afghan National Standards authority is tasked to control the quality of fuel, if we are asked to do controlling we are will launch necessary measurements.”
“We will not have protected and healthy environment unless huge amount of investments is to be made over controlling of the pollution and sources causing pollution in Afghanistan.” Chairman of the protection of the environment Shahzada Mustafa Zaher said.
Acting Mayor of Kabul city Abdullah Habibzai said, “20 years of strategic plans to protect the environment of Kabul has been designed, efforts are underway to implement the plan soon.”
Increasing of pollution in Kabul cause hundreds of the Kabul residents including women and children to plug with different diseases, where dozens of the ills specially the children lose their life due to severe pollution, most of the Kabul residents using firewood to keep the houses warm in winter season.
Reported by: Rafi Sediqee
Health
Nationwide polio vaccination campaign kicks off across Afghanistan
Afghanistan launched a polio vaccination campaign on Monday aimed at protecting around 10.72 million children under the age of 5, the Health Ministry announced.
The four-day campaign will cover 31 of the country’s 34 provinces.
Vaccinations in Ghor, Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces will be implemented later due to recent rains and cold weather, the ministry said in a statement.
“Together with our partners, we are committed to eradicating polio from Afghanistan,” said Dr Qalandar Ebad, the acting minister of public health.
“We will work tirelessly and continue polio vaccination campaigns and complementary health services until we reach the goal of fully eradicating polio.”
The ministry urged religious scholars and local elders to cooperate with vaccine providers to fight polio, a debilitating disease that can lead to paralysis and death.
In December, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the repatriation of migrants from neighboring Pakistan has increased the risk of spreading the virus. Since then, Afghanistan has conducted at least three rounds of nationwide vaccinations.
Vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan often face challenges due to conspiracy theories that polio vaccines cause infertility or that vaccinators are spies.
Health
Azerbaijan urged to help improve capacity of Afghan health workers
Acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ebad, in a meeting with Azerbaijan’s ambassador, Ilham Mohammadov, called for the country’s assistance in improving the capacity of Afghanistan’s health workers.
The two sides also discussed cooperation in the health sector, capacity building of Afghan health workers, and Azerbaijan’s role in the health sector and other issues, according to a statement released by the Public Health Ministry.
Azerbaijan’s envoy said that his country seeks to cooperate with Afghanistan in a sustainable manner in the field of health.
In other news, the foundation stone for the construction of oxygen production facility was laid at the Indira Gandhi children hospital in Kabul.
Officials of the Ministry of Public Health said that the facility will be built with the financial and technical assistance of the World Health Organization, and with the capacity to produce 200 cylinders of oxygen daily to meet not only the needs of the hospital, but also other health facilities.
Health
Balkh health officials report sharp increase in number of cancer patients
Balkh Public Health Department officials say there has been a significant increase in the number of patients with cancer in the province.
“In 1401, about 2,613 OPD (out patient department) cases were registered with us. In 1402, these figures were 4,912 cases,” said Ehsanullah Kaliwal, the head of the oncology department at Balkh Regional Hospital.
Some doctors say genetic factors, environmental pollution, arbitrary use of medicines, and excessive consumption of meat were reasons for the sharp increase.
One doctor said cancer was also hereditry.
However, a large percentage of cancer patients in Balkh have stomach cancer. Many of them have appealed for the government to improve treatment facilities.
According to health officials, in the first month of this solar year (April), 423 cancer patients visited this hospital for treatment.
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