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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.
Afghanistan became a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 19, 1948. [18] It has an estimated population of around 40 million people. [12] Of this, approximately 35 million are in the country while the remaining 5 million or so reside in Iran, Pakistan and elsewhere around the world.
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]
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 ...
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.
In 2000–2001, the budget allocation for the health sector was approximately US$144 million; health expenditures per capita were estimated at US$4.50, compared with US$10 on average in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2000 the country counted one hospital bed per 4,900 population and more than 27,000 people per primary health care facility.
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the Ministry of Health, along with the World Health Organization and other technical partners and donors reconstructed the health sector. At the time, at least 70% [5] of the Afghan population was dependent on health services provided by the international community. Almost six million Afghans had no or ...