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Healthcare in Afghanistan is slowly improving after it was almost non-existent due to the decades of war. Currently, there are over 3,000 health facilities found throughout Afghanistan . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] More than 17,000 health posts have been established in the country, including the first neurosurgery hospital.
[19] [20] Afghanistan in 2016 had the second lowest health worker density in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), with a ratio of 4.6 medical doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, considerably below the threshold for critical shortage of 23 health care professionals per 10,000. [21]
This is a partial list of Hospitals in Afghanistan. In 2004, there were 117 private and government-run hospitals in the country. [1] The number has gradually increased to over 5,000, which include clinics. [2] [3] [4] Nearly all districts of Afghanistan have at least one government-run hospital.
The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. This is the plight at the Afghan-Japan Hospital for communicable diseases, the only COVID-19 facility for the more ...
The goal of the ministry is to develop the health sector to improve the health of the people of Afghanistan, especially women and children, through implementing the basic package of health services (BPHS) and the essential package of hospital services (EPHS) as the standard, agreed-upon minimum of health care to be provided at each level of the ...
Building on the Ismaili Community's health care efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary health care and curative care in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan, and Tanzania, and provides technical assistance to government in health service delivery in Kenya, Syria and Tajikistan. [4]
Health care in Afghanistan has improved in the last two decades. There are over 5,000 hospitals and clinics in the country, with the major ones being in Kabul. ADEI Medical Complex [224] Afghan-Japan Hospital [225] Afshar Hospital; Ahmad Shah Baba Hospital; Ariana Medical Complex [226] Atatürk Children's Hospital
Afghanistan’s vulnerability to the climate crisis is compounded by decades of war and instability, which have eroded institutional capacity at every level. In villages across the country ...