Monday,7 October 2013
Kabul (BNA) Healthcare is improving gradually across the country but unfortunately the people especially suffer from lack of health services particularly in remote areas.
Fortunately the people today enjoy healthcare services in remotest part of the country, but still we are facing some challenges in this regard.
The ministry of public health organized the international conference on mother and child to celebrate the improvement of the women condition in the country through offering quality healthcare for mother and child.
The third International Conference under the theme of “moving towards quality healthcare for Mother and Child” was held here in Kabul on Saturday with participation of Public Health Ministry’s high-ranking officials and more than 400 healthcare professionals of national and international organizations.
The conference was organized by the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC) in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to discuss the new innovative techniques for addressing current issues of maternal and child health.
In her opening remarks, Dr. Suraya Dalil, the Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan referred to the Conference as an event of international standing, saying this conference reaffirmed the FMIC as a role model for other healthcare institutions in Afghanistan by bringing excellent in care to the people of Afghanistan.
She said; “the status of women and children in the country is a practical measurement of a nation’s progress and development.
Indicators relate to women and children’s health, nutrition, education, employment and over all their empowerment are measures reflecting a nation’s progress, development and prosperity”.
“We know that our strategies that we have developed jointly and implemented jointly have been brought results to the families in Afghanistan” the minister added.
Dr. Dalil further said that The Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) the Essential Package of Hospital Services (EPHS), as well as expansion of immunization programs, prevention and treatment of malnutrition, midwifery education, especially community based-midwifery education, combating communicable diseases, especially malaria and tuberculosis and child spacing and family planning, had been one of the tools and programs that had brought positive results.
Meanwhile, the Diplomatic Representative of the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDM) in Afghanistan, Nurjehan Manawi said that the presence here of high level government officials was a testimony of the commitment of the Government of Afghanistan towards provision of high quality health care in the country and the AKDN through its health institutions and together with its partners was honored to contribute to these efforts.
