Ahmad Jawad Osmani, acting minister of public health, who visited the western province of Herat on Saturday said that the second wave of COVID-19 might grip the country as the weather is ge
9 May 2021 - 08:36
KABUL (Pajhwok): Workers of a number of Covid-19 response hospitals are complaining about not receiving their salaries for months and have warned to leave their jobs during the third wave of the virus if their problem is not resolved.
Pajhwok Afghan News interviewed a number of Covid-19 response workers in Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Herat, Khost, Nimroz and Bamyan provinces and most of them complained that they did not receive their salaries for several months.
Problem of Covid-19 workers be solved immediately: Health officials
Khost:
There are 21 people working in the Covid-19 response area of the government in Khost province, but they have not received salaries since last four months.
In Afghanistan, a booming kidney trade preys on the poor
10 Feb, 2021 05:00 AM
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Gulfgha Amiri, who sold one of his kidneys, rests a day after his surgery at Loqman Hakim Hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, in January. Photo / Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Adam Nossiter and Najim Rahim
Widespread poverty and an ambitious private hospital are helping to fuel an illegal market a portal to new misery for the country s most vulnerable. Amid the bustle of beggars and patients outside the crowded hospital here, there are sellers and buyers, casting wary eyes at one another: The poor, seeking cash for their vital organs, and the gravely ill or their surrogates, looking to buy.
HERAT, Afghanistan- Amid the bustle of beggars and patients outside the crowded hospital here, there are sellers and buyers, casting wary eyes at one another: The poor, seeking cash for their vital organs, and the gravely ill or their surrogates, looking to buy. In Afghanistan, as in most countries, the sale and purchase of organs is illegal, and so is the implanting of.