The Pakistani health authorities have said that they would be working with Afghanistan in improving its medical infrastructure, which has been affected poorly due to the war situations, further stating that they have asked the Afghan officials to ‘define their health needs’ for help from Pakistan.
“We will let them (Afghans) define their needs and then work out what needs to done, priority wise,” Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan stated about being asked how Pakistan was going to assist Afghanistan in improving its health facilities and offering better health services to people in suffering.
Pakistan has already created a 300-bed tertiary-care health facility in Kabul, namely “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital”, which is the only working public health facility as of now with 50 oxygenated beds for Covid-19 patients, a Pakistani doctor present in Kabul said but asked for more help from Pakistan and other neighboring countries to dodge a health crisis.
“Afghans are in need of health services as many foreign healthcare workers, including doctors, paramedics and even locals have left the country. Female nurses are afraid and many of them are not joining their duties. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul is functioning properly but it is unable to meet the health needs of Kabul and many other cities,” an official at the NHS said.
