Health

Afghanistan: Six kids die due to diarrhea in Mazar-e-Sharif

Afghanistan's Mazar-e-Sharif city has witnessed the deaths of six children due to seasonal diseases like diarrhea in the past two months, media reports said. more

Afghanistan: Nangarhar registers fourth Polio case of 2023

Kabul: Afghanistan has reported the fourth case of Polio this year in Bihsud district of Nangarhar province, media reports said.

Afghanistan: Two polio cases reported in Nangarhar

Afghanistan has recorded two new polio cases in Nangarhar region of the country, media reports said.

Millions of Afghan children inoculated against measles, polio in 1st Statewide drive since 2021 transition

New York: Millions of Afghan children have been vaccinated during the first nationwide integrated measles and polio campaign in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August 2021, th ...

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children: Save the Children

Kabul: Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children who are unable to access healthcare facilities, Save the Children said today.

Lifesaving support for new mothers in crisis-wracked Afghanistan

The Malalai Maternity Hospital is one of the busiest in the Afghan capital, Kabul, welcoming around 85 babies into the world every day, including 20 by Caesarean section. But the ongoing ...

Salaries for Afghanistan health workers sends ‘message of hope’ to millions

New York: By the time the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August, at the main hospital in Maidan Shar, a city of 35,000 in the center of the country, many of the staff had been paid ...

Taliban backs WHO polio vaccination campaign across Afghanistan next month

New York: The decision by the Taliban leadership to support the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan has been welcomed by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Afghanistan: Rapid decline in public health conditions, WHO warns

Healthcare provision is deteriorating fast in Afghanistan, the UN health agency warned on Wednesday, with cases of measles and diarrhoea shooting up, and polio becoming a “major ris ...

Afghanistan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, as hunger hits 95 per cent of families

Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse, the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, warned on Wednesday, while on the streets of Kabul, the hunger families are ...