Archive for the ‘Health News’ Category

Japan donates equipment and money to Afghanistan

Yesterday, the government of Japan donated 8 snow-clearing machines to Afghanistan, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) said. According to a Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) report, the machines are worth $1.6 million. The report added that 6 of the machines will be used to clear the Salang Pass of snow and the rest [...]

December 21, 2012   Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Development project almost completed in Balkh, and Islamic Center to be built in Kabul

Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported today that an international airport, a railway and a 400-bed hospital will soon be inaugurated in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh. Balkh’s deputy governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat said that the airport which has been overseen by a Turkish company and is being funded by Germany and the United Arab Emirates is [...]

October 28, 2012   Posted in: Afghan Sports News, Afghanistan's Economy, Education, Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

8 million children vaccinated against polio

A three-day nationwide wide campaign to vaccinate around 8 million children against polio in Afghanistan recently concluded. The campaign, which was led by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health, had started on September 16th and included 55,000 service provides, as well as 40 volunteers who went door-to-door to administer the anti-polio vaccines to children under 5 [...]

September 23, 2012   Posted in: Health News  Comments Closed

Japan funds construction of roads and hospital in Afghanistan

A press release issued today by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) said that a ceremony was held today in Afghanistan’s province of Bamiyan to celebrate the construction work that that has started on the construction of the Foladi Valley Road. Officials from the United Nations, Provincial Governor Habiba Sorabi, as well as [...]

May 20, 2012   Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

New Facilities for a Hospital and Student Teaching College

Public Health Director Dr. Noor Ahmad Sherzad told Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) that an upgrade, which included the addition of a new building to a 56 year old public hospital in Nimroz province, was recently completed. He added that patients who have previously relied upon the western Herat province zonal hospital will find this facility [...]

May 10, 2012   Posted in: Education, Health News, Reconstruction and Development, Women's Rights  Comments Closed

Khost gets new medical university; water improvements made in Jalalabad

Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) reported Saturday that the Ahmad Shah Baba Medical University was officially opened at a well attended inaugural ceremony. The private university is the first of its kind in the southeastern Khost province. It is fully equipped, and staffed by local and foreign teachers. There are currently 105 students, though there is [...]

April 29, 2012   Posted in: Education, Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Hospital opened in Khost, 90 schools to be built in Ghazni

A new maternity hospital was opened in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost, Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) reported today. The hospital which was opened by the international humanitarian organization, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a 56-bed maternity hospital which has a delivery room that offers obstetric care for normal and complicated deliveries, and an operating [...]

March 4, 2012   Posted in: Education, Health News, Reconstruction and Development, Women's Rights  2 Comments

New health facility opened in Kandahar

Last week, a new health facility was opened in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, according to Afghan media reports. The facility, which took a year to build, at a cost of $200,000 was opened in the Maroof district. Funding for the project came from the United States. According to the Bakhtar News Agency (BNA), the [...]

February 5, 2012   Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Modern health facility to be built in Herat

Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) reported today that the foundation stone for modern 50-bed hospital was laid in the Shindand district of western Herat province. The stone was laid in a ceremony attended by Afghanistan’s acting Public Health Minster, Dr. Suraya Dalil, US military official, and local Afghan officials. The $5.4 million funding for the project [...]

January 28, 2012   Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Building for a clinic opened in Parwan and a bridge inaugurated in Kunar

Last week, Afghanistan’s Bakhtar News Agency reported that a 10 room building for a medical clinic was opened in the Shinwari district of Parwan province. The building was constructed at a cost of more than $150,000; the funding for the project was provided by the Japanese government. The clinic will provide health services to the [...]

January 8, 2012   Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Water Projects Completed In Samangan Province

Afghanistan’s Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) reported last week that water supply projects have been completed in the northern province of Samangan recently. This has allowed for approximately 3,500 families to have access to clean drinking water as well as hygienic water for all their other needs. Engineer Gul Rahman, who is the director of  the [...]

September 25, 2011   Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed

Reports: $100 million food processing plant and new hospital to be built in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Tolo news reported two days ago that the Dubai based ANHAM contracting firm “will invest $100 million in Afghanistan to build a food processing plant and a logistics hub covering 5,000 hectares of land.” The report cited the Afghan Investment Support Agency (AISA) as saying that the project will create thousands of jobs, and [...]

September 12, 2011   Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Health News, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development  Comments Closed