The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says washing hands with soap and water can prevent the spread of deadly and dangerous diseases, especially among children. Marking...
Afghanistan’s ministry of public health said on Thursday that a cross-border two-day meeting got underway on Wednesday in Islamabad with the aim of curbing the spread...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Tuesday marked World Mental Health Day in Kabul under the theme “mental health is a global human right” where...
Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO’s chief scientist said,...
Scientists Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States respectively won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the...
The Ministry of Public Health said on Sunday at an event to mark World Heart Day that 2,000 people in the country died from heart disease...
The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan says that the Ministry in cooperation with the relevant United Nations agencies started a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) public health minister, Dr Qalandar Ibaad, has officially launched the newly established call center for emergencies. The National Emergency Operations...
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such...
Bayat Foundation on Sunday inaugurated a Maternity and Neonatal Hospital on the campus of Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul and officially handed over the facility...
Afghanistan Food and Drug Authority (AFDA) says foodstuff and medicines will only be allowed to enter the country through customs once quality control tests have been...
The Pharmaceutical Services Union in Herat says that medicines are still being smuggled into Afghanistan despite efforts made to clamp down on the practise. According to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign has started in six provinces in Afghanistan. The organization said...
Doctors say good progress has been made in the medical sector in Herat and about 90 percent of patients are treated in private and government hospitals...
A highly mutated COVID variant called BA.2.86 has now been detected in Switzerland and South Africa in addition to Israel, Denmark, the U.S. and the U.K.,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed for a budget of $125 million in its recent report to fund hospitals in Afghanistan. WHO has said that...
There have been 32 positive environmental samples of polio found so far this year in Afghanistan, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO said in...
Officials in Badakhshan’s main hospital say that cases of malnutrition among children in the remote northeastern province have increased. According to them, in the past month,...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday 581,548 patients, mostly women and children, received primary health care at 47 health facilities of the Afghan Red...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says a polio vaccination campaign has been launched in most provinces of the country and the aim is to reach...
