Tuesday June 9, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Half part of the country’s population has no access to basic services in the health sector; this was stated by the minister of public health Dr. Firozuddin Firoz here yesterday, BNA reported. Setting out his 100-day working plan, the minister said that 50 percent of Afghanistan’s population has no access to health services due to variety of reasons including security problems. Survey conducted recently indicates that in parts of the country there is no health clinic or is not sufficient to provide services, the minister said, adding 34 health centers have been opened in different parts of the country over the past three months and would open more clinics in the next three months. Poor health services in the country have forced thousands of patients to go to India and Pakistan for medical treatment annually, the minister said, adding less attention had been paid in health sector over the past 13 years. The ministry of public health besides improving health service and opening more equipped health clinics in the country would spare no efforts to eradicate polio in the country. To train more cadres in health sector, the ministry of public health has sent some physicians and nurses to China and India, Dr. Firoz said. He also added that the operation of some 150 companies had been stopped due to importing medicines with poor quality.
