On World Hepatitis Awareness Day, the Ministry of Public Health announced an increase in the capacity to diagnose this disease in the country.

Abdul Wali Haqqani, Deputy Minister of Public Health, provided statistics indicating that 15,000 people were infected with this disease across the country last year.

He called on international organizations to cooperate with them in fighting this disease.

The Deputy Minister of Public Health said: "Last year in Afghanistan, nearly fifteen thousand cases were reported due to this disease, of which 12,000 were registered with Hepatitis B and 1,300 with Hepatitis C. There are no exact figures in Afghanistan; however, based on our reports, the numbers have decreased."

Sharif Ahmad Habib, the Head of the National Program for the Control of AIDS, Jaundice, and STDs said that the capacity to diagnose jaundice in the country has increased, and in the past six months, more than two million people have been diagnosed with this disease.

Habib also added that efforts to establish more diagnostic and treatment centers across the country are ongoing.