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March 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Millions of dollars have been poured into the health sector. Yet for many Afghans the nearest health centre is roughly three days away, and two-thirds of pharmacies do not have professional staff. An investigation by the Independent Media Consortium (IMC) Productions. Full news...
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February 26, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Medical Xpress: Despite prolonged combat missions to Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been no overall increase in mental health problems among UK soldiers, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Full news...
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February 25, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The patients in the four hospitals run by Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan are the lucky ones, by all accounts, having arrived at well-stocked facilities that maintain international standards with high-quality free care. But when Doctors Without Borders, a French medical aid organization also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, surveyed 800... Full news...
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January 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Afghanistan’s big cities face a serious environmental crisis. The National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) has failed to spend from its development budget. A Killid investigation in Kabul. Last year in the Afghan capital city, NEPA officials held seven coordinating meetings with representatives of people, the municipality, ministries of public health (MoPH) and interior affairs (MoI), traffic department, and National Union of Industries. Decisions to counter environmental pollution were taken but they have remained on paper. Full news...
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November 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Addressing the 4th Milad-e-Kabul Cultural & Research Festival on Wednesday, the Afghan Minister of Information and Culture Makhdom Raheen said that more than 12,00 cultural heritage sites in Afghanistan are under threat of damage or destruction. Most would say Afghanistan has come a long way from the days of the Taliban when the famous Bamyan Buddhas became targets for military artillery. Full news...
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September 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: At least 27 miners in Afghanistan were killed in a coal-mine collapse, officials said Sunday, in an accident likely to reinforce worries about a sector that many Afghans hope can underpin the country’s development. The collapse occurred on Saturday evening in the northern province of Samangan, said provincial governor’s spokesman Sediq Azizi. Full news...
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August 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of remote areas in southern Ghazni province complain they have to take their sick women to the provincial capital for treatment due to the shortage of lady doctors in health clinics in their areas. A Giro district resident, Kamal Shah, whose wife has been admitted at the civil hospital in Ghazni City, said there was no lady doctor in health centres in his home town. Full news...
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July 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: It is close to midday and a group of patients wait outside the Mirwais regional hospital in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar city. “There are no health clinics in our district so I have to come this long way for treatment. I have not met the doctor yet and have been waiting to see him for a long time,” one man, who had been waiting since sunrise and had driven four hours from neighbouring Helmand Province, told IRIN. Full news...
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May 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Archaeologists just south of Kabul are racing to preserve one of the richest Buddhist historical sites ever found. The ancient monasteries and statues in Mes Aynak are under threat from a Chinese company which plans to develop the area in order to tap into the world’s second largest copper deposit. Full news...
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April 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The special People on Monday staged a protest in front of the Presidential Palace in Kabul, seeking their rights land plots. More than 200 physicall challenged individuals marched from Deh Afghanan area and gathered near the Zambaq Square in front of President Hamid Karzai’s office. Full news...
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March 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Afghanistan has untapped oil and gas wealth that could solve its serious energy problems and transform the country. Nematullah Tanin investigates. The country imports 3.5 million tonnes of oil and 250,000 cubic metres of gas. The Ministry of Mines and Industry says there are potentially lucrative oil reserves including the Amu and Tajik basins, in Katawaz in Paktika, Tirpool in Helmand and Abrez in Herat. Full news...
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January 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: It has long been a given that the air pollution in this city gets horrific: on average even worse than Beijing’s infamous haze, by one measure. For nearly as long, there has been the widespread belief by foreign troops and officials here that — let’s be blunt here — feces are a part of the problem. Full news...
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January 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Afghan public health ministry officials announced at least one Afghan woman dies in every two hours across the country due maternal deaths. Suraya Dalil Afghan public health minister said majority of the mothers die during childbirth as a result of lack of proper healthcare. Full news...
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December 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle: “Mohammad! Madman!” the children cry after him. They laugh and make jokes. Mohammad does not know how to answer and shouts back angrily at his tormentors: “Not me! You!” The 16-year-old is just one among many mentally handicapped in trouble-torn Afghanistan. The authorities are not in a position to supply any reliable numbers. Mohammad lives with his parents and two sisters in one of the poorer areas of Kabul. Full news...
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December 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ten-year-old Noria is unable to go to school any more because she is so scared of the effects of war. “We are scared – there’s war here and rockets being fired. I used to go to school but now I can’t,” she said. “When night comes, my little sister and I have nightmares. One day a rocket landed close to our school, and we were saved only by God’s mercy.” Full news...
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November 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group: Polecharkhi prisoners suffer from sexually transmitted diseases and drug abuse. Killid interviewed prisoners and a doctor in the Kabul prison to find that opium addiction and diseases like HIV-Aids are rampant among the 7,000 inmates. While 70 prisoners have been diagnosed with syphilis, 150 of the 700 prisoners on drugs were injecting the drug, according to Dr Hemat who leads a medical group in Polecharkhi. Full news...
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November 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: On a low bed in a quiet, all-female hospital ward, a depressed Afghan teenager huddles silently under blankets, her mother close by. In a nearby room are men suffering from schizophrenia, delusions of persecution and power, anxiety and panic disorders. Among them are some of the unseen victims of the war in Afghanistan: a generation of people mentally damaged by their exposure to incessant conflict. Full news...
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October 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: No one here knows the man whose left leg is shackled to the wall of cell No. 5. Last week, he finished tearing his mattress to shreds and then moved onto his clothes, ripping his shirt and pants off before falling asleep naked. “He’s insane,” say the villagers who have come to gawk at him. “He doesn’t know whether he’s in this world or another.” Full news...
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July 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The capital city of Afghanistan’s south-western Nimruz province is struggling to supply its residents with adequate drinking water, despite the plentiful Helmand River running through the region. The residents of the capital, Zaranj, have called on the provincial government to address the problem but the local officials say it is a problem at the central government level. Full news...
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June 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Sixteen people were washed away and hundreds of livestock killed by floods in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on Thursday. The floods hit Dalbi and Qoraye villages of Almar district on Wednesday evening, when the 16 people living under two tents went missing, a tribal elder said. Full news...
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June 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said. Rescuers have so far pulled two women’s bodies from the rubble of the landslide in Baghlan province, said provincial Gov. Abdul Majid. The U.N. confirmed one other death and said houses were destroyed across five districts. Full news...
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June 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Though the government has ensured healthcare facilities for more than 54 percent of pregnant women across the country, only 34 percent could benefit from them due to strict cultural restrictions, officials said on Sunday. A ceremony marking “National Day of Safe Motherhood” was held in Kabul, where a message from Public Health Minister Dr. Suraya Dalil was read out. Full news...
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May 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Only a few hours’ drive from the Afghan capital Kabul is an area renowned for some of the world’s brightest and most valuable rubies. But this wealth is being plundered by thieves, corrupt officials and the Taliban, as the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary discovers. The sun was about to rise over the Hindu Kush peaks surrounding Kabul when we hit the road to Jegdalek. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: At least 21 people have died and scores of others have gone missing after flash floods triggered by torrential rains destroyed thousands of homes in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, officials have said. It was reported on Sunday that the floods left thousands of people homeless on Saturday after it struck the provincial capitals of Sari Pul and Takhar. Full news...
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May 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Independent.ie: Motherhood is considered to be a highly demanding, if not rewarding task, wherever one lives in the world. But for many in developing countries, being a mother can mean a daily struggle against disease, malnutrition and poverty. The startling disparity of conditions is revealed today in a report in which Niger has been named as the worst place in the world to bear children. Full news...
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May 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan killed at least 26 people in northern Afghanistan and rescue workers fear the toll may rise, officials said Monday. Eight hours of relentless rainfall that began Sunday led to the flooding in several districts of Sar-e-Pol province, said Faizullah Sadat, provincial director of Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA). Full news...
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April 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: At the Balkh public hospital in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, 24-year-old Yasin was by the bedside of his father, Mahmud, who had been admitted with a head injury. His fellow villagers in Badghis province had beaten him up. “My father was admitted here eight days ago, and since then the doctors have only provided him with eight IV drips,” Yasin told an IWPR reporter. Full news...
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April 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BNO News: At least sixteen people were killed on Sunday as a result of severe flash floods in northern and eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Monday. As many as 800 houses are believed to have been destroyed. The flash floods occurred on Sunday and mostly affected the districts of Kushandi and Shulgara, located in the northern province of Balkh, where eleven and four people were killed respectively. Full news...
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March 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 22 people from one extended family have been killed in an avalanche in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province, officials say. They say that the avalanche took place in the Wakhan Corridor, a small, mountainous and remote finger of land which pokes into China. Full news...
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March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 42 people have been killed and many more are missing in an avalanche in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province. The provincial governor’s office said that one village near the Tajikistan border had been completely swept away. The number of people killed in the village in Shekay district is expected to rise, a spokesman for the governor told the BBC. Full news...
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