Health
Afghans Suffer from Poor Health Care Services: Senates
Senate members at the Public welfare committee in the upper house of the parliament have expressed concerns over none standard Hospitals, misdiagnosis disease, shortages of health care centers and providing poor health care services saying all these problems threaten the life of Afghans in the country.
Meanwhile officials Minister of Public Health have confirmed the issues saying that lack of proper budgetary allocation caused that challenges to rise on health care sector.
Different challenges have caused that Afghans access poor health care services within the country.
Head of the public welfare committee in senate house Nisar Haris said,” based on the assessment launched, we found out that there are dozens of health care centers providing poor health care services this threaten the life of Afghans in the country.”
Meanwhile Second Deputy of the Senate Hasibullah Kalimzai said,” The main challenges which damages the whole system in the country is corruption, if we do not get together the problems won’t be resolved, despite of efforts made by the officials in Ministry of Public health the health issues still remain as huge challenge.”
Meanwhile President special envoy for the good governance insisted that the health care problems still threat the people’s life’s, insisted that concrete steps should be taken to resolve the health issues.
He said,” Despite of a lot changes made in other sectors, health problems remained as huge challenge where Afghans are suffering from it, there is no professional health providers staffs working in district level.”
Minister of Public health confirms health challenges, but insisting that 60 percent of Afghans access health care services throughout the country.
Minister of Public Health Feruzuddin Feruz said,” Accessing health service is the right every single Afghans, insisted that now 60 percent of Afghans can access health care services throughout the country, and soon 370 health care centers will be established in coming 6 months which will enable Afghans to access health care services.”
Poor health care services system in Afghanistan has made the Afghans to take their patients to abroad for further treatments, the distrust of the Nation undermined the health care services efforts.
Reported by Rafi Sediqee
Health
Public Health minister meets with head of the UN refugees agency
Dr. Qalandar Ebad, the Minister of Public Health met with Leonard Zulu, the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, on Thursday in Kabul to discuss issues facing the health sector in the country.
Among the issues discussed was that of the establishment of new health centers for returnees in the country.
Ebad said the provision of better health services for compatriots and returnees was one of his priorities and requested the cooperation of this organization in this field.
Leonard Zulu assured Ebad of the organization’s continued cooperation.
Health
Ebad addresses gathering of health sector supporting organizations in Doha
The Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Qalandar Ebad on Thursday attended a meeting of health sector-supporting organizations in Doha, Qatar and spoke about the need to focus on certain areas of healthcare in the country.
In his speech, Ebad spoke of work needed to reform the health system, joint supervision, self-sufficiency of the health sector, standardization of health services at village and district level and provision of all-round health services.
He asked international colleagues in the field of health to work more on reducing administrative costs and delivering aid in a proper and correct manner.
Ebad said that if excessive administrative expenses are prevented, it will have a positive effect on the expenses in the field of health services.
He also emphasized that the release of the country’s frozen assets would be beneficial for the health sector especially for mothers and children.
It is a big and positive step for the independence of Afghanistan’s health system, development and standardization of health services, which should be taken by the international community, he said.
Health
Polio vaccination campaign underway in Afghanistan
The Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with international institutions, on Monday launched the second sub-national polio vaccination campaign for 2024.
The campaign runs in different parts of the country from 26 to 29 February 2024, and aims to reach 7.6 million children below the age of five.
“We are committed to eradicating polio in Afghanistan with the cooperation of our partners. We are working day and night and continue supplementary polio vaccination campaigns and health care services in order to reach the goal of completely eradicating polio throughout the country,” Acting Public Health Minister Qalandar Ebad said.
“The support of all Afghans, especially elders and religious scholars, is important in polio eradication activities. It is necessary for them to participate in the fight against polio and keep their children healthy,” he added.
Polio is a viral disease that cannot be cured and can only be prevented and eradicated by vaccination.
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