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Afghans Suffer from Poor Health Care Services: Senates

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

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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

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Azerbaijan urged to help improve capacity of Afghan health workers

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(Last Updated On: April 22, 2024)

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.

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Balkh health officials report sharp increase in number of cancer patients

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(Last Updated On: April 18, 2024)

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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