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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 ...
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.
The maternal mortality rate is currently 396 deaths/100,000 live births and its infant mortality rate is 66 [25] to 112.8 deaths in every 1,000 live births. [26] The Ministry of Public Health wants to further improve these higher rates by making them normal. The country has about 38,000 midwives but more are needed. [3]
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to end the financial running of 25 Afghan hospitals by the end of August due to funding constraints, a spokesperson told Reuters, amid ...
The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the head ...
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 ...
The vast majority of the world’s 597,000 malaria deaths in 2023 were African children aged under five years old, the World Health Organization said in December.