Health
IEA’s health minister on six-day visit to Qatar
The Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Dr. Qalandar Ebad left Kabul on Thursday for a six-day visit to Qatar.
Leading a high-ranking IEA delegation, Ebad will meet with Qatari officials to discuss the coordination of health services with Qatar; building capacity for Afghan doctors; and discussing cooperation and investment in the field of health care in Afghanistan, the ministry said.
The ministry added that Ebad will also visit a number of health care facilities in Qatar while in the Gulf country.
The Ministry of Public Health is trying to raise the level of knowledge and expertise of Afghan doctors so that Afghans will no longer need to go abroad for treatment.
Ebad had previously said that nothing has been done in the health sector in the past twenty years.