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On World Health Day, Minister puts focus on Food Safety

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(Last Updated On: October 25, 2022)

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Annually Afghans lose their lives as a result of unsafe foods, health minister said.

Afghan public health minister, Feruzuddin Feruz who was speaking on the occasion of the World Health Day said that the government must establish an independent administration for medicine and food to resolve the problem of unsafe foods.

As a result of unsafe foods most of Afghans are suffering with acute and chronic diseases, and a large number of Afghans are losing their lives which directly affect our economic,” Feruz said.

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Iman Shancti World Health Organization (WHO) special envoy in Afghanistan emphasize that annually about 2 million children around the world suffers to death as a result of eating unsafe foods.

We must recognize that food safety is not an issue that only the health sector should take care of, everyone including farmers, food industries, food traders and the consumers must work together to guarantee food safety,” she said.

Health minister also warned that soon he will blacklist 50 companies supplying pharmaceutical and medical products.

More than 50 companies supplying pharmaceutical products will be included in the blacklist, more than 50 private health clinics will be downgraded and a number of private hospitals will be disqualified by seizing their work licenses.”

Earlier health officials announced that more than 80 percent of the private hospitals are not standard.

Poverty, no supervision and quality control over the exported foods and lack of food chain systems causes to harm food safety in the world.

Every year, WHO selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day, which falls on 7 April, the birthday of the organization.

The theme of this year’s is Food Safety.

World Health Day 2015 on Food Safety is an opportunity to alert governments, manufacturers, retailers and the public to the importance of food safety – and the part each can play in ensuring that the food on people’ plates is safe to eat.

Reported by: Hameed Sediqy

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Balkh health officials report sharp increase in number of cancer patients

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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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Majority of Afghans with mental disorders are women: officials

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Based on last year’s data, 52 percent of people with mental disorders in Afghanistan are women, the Ministry of Public Health said.

However, after the Islamic Emirate took over the country and with the improvement of nationwide security and the provision of better health services, mental disorders have decreased, the ministry said.

“Overall, the mental security of men and women in Afghanistan is not ensured and their mental security is disturbed. According to the figures shared with us, in 2023, 52 percent of the visitors for mental disorders were women,” said Sharaft Zaman Amarkhil, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Health.

“Generally speaking, we can say that compared to the past, the instances of mental illnesses have decreased,” he added.

People suffering mental disorders mostly refuse to share their problem, willingly or unwillingly.

“There are many problems at home; We are poor. I finished school, but didn’t find any job,” Ansar, a mentally ill person, said.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), half of Afghanistan’s population suffers from mental distress.

Factors such as unemployment, poverty, domestic violence, ban on girls’ and women’s education and work, and drugs are said to be key contributors to mental distress.

 

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Over 1 million women in Afghanistan malnourished last year: WFP

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A total of 1.2 million women in Afghanistan were malnourished last year, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.

Mona Shaikh, head of nutrition at WFP Afghanistan, said that the number of malnourished women is expected to increase this year.

On malnourished children, she said that their number will reach 3 million this year, but WFP will be able to assist only 1.6 million of them.

WFP warned that after foreign assistance cuts last year, it saw a rise in children’s admissions to malnutrition clinics in Afghanistan.

More than 23 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan this year, according to the United Nations. Over half of them are children.

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