Kunduz Officials: 1000s Treated By Mobile Health Teams Daily

Tolo News
Aug 11, 2022

Kunduz Officials: 1000s Treated By Mobile Health Teams Daily


Meanwhile, Kunduz residents expressed their satisfaction with the move and asked for further resources like this in remote areas. 

The public health department said they created seven mobile health units with the help of an aid institution to care for the health problems of residents in the province. 

 According to public health officials, at least 5,600 people benefit from children’s malnutrition aid, medicine, psychiatric services and other health services. 

“In Kunduz we now do not see people going five kilometers for health services, we have house-to-house, mosque-to-mosques services and village health services,” said Najib Saheel, head of the Kunduz public health department. 

“In each area there are, on average, approximately 800 to 1,200 people that this team visits, which is 5,600 total patients daily,” said Hejrat Zaki, a locsl staff member of an international aid organization in the province. 

“We have five kinds health services that focus on psychiatry, vaccinations, midwifery, and child malnutrition,” said Tamana, a member of a health service team.