Ten thousand people contracted Coronavirus and of them 650 people died of the infection nationwide during the past five months, the acting public health minister said on Saturday.
Acting Public Health Minister Dr Abdul Bari Omar told reporters in Kabul that they had taken measures to check the spread of Covid-19 and 8000 to 12000 people were administered vaccine on a daily basis.
He acknowledged lack of resources to establish Covi-19 treatment hospitals across the country but said efforts were underway to control the situation with foreign assistance.
Dr. Omar said they had discussed with UNICEF the establishment of 10 oxygen producing plants in order to avoid its shortage.
He urged the international community to keep politics away from health and help the Afghans in this regard.The acting public health minister called malnutrition of children another challenge, which he linked with poverty, not breastfeeding children by their mothers and unhygienic food items sales in the market. He said currently 3.2 million children in Afghanistan faced malnutrition.
However, he said they were working jointly with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to cope with children’s malnutrition.He also shared information about child births, saying 20000 women delivered children through C-section and 398,000 babies conceived naturally across the country.Dr. Omar also talked about the situation and population of drug addicts in the country, saying 3.5 million people were addicted to drugs.—AP
