Afghanistan Cancer Patients
Number of cancer patients rising in Afghanistan: Officials
Kabul: Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said the number of cancer patients in the country's state-run hospitals have increased in recent times, according to media reports.
Health officials said the condition of the health care services are deteriorating every day as state hospitals face the lack of medicine and medical equipment.
Officials at the state-run Jamhuriat hospital told Tolo News that not only the patients suffering from cancer, but the total number of patients visiting the hospital has increased as the Afghan families could not afford to go to private health facilities.
They urged the World Health Organization (WHO) and other supporting agencies to assist the hospitals and centres.
“We do not have enough medicine for all the patients, we give some medicine to the patients who go into surgery,” Mohammad Essa Ibrahimi, head of the cancer treatment program at Jamhuriat hospital, told Tolo News.
The total number of patients diagnosed with cancer was 13,500 for the current solar year, 60 percent of the patients are female and 40 percent are male, reports Tolo News.
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