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Pakistan Commits to Continuing to Support Pakistan-Built Hospitals in Afghanistan |
2022-11-20 |
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] In an extraordinary meeting with the Taliban![]() Minister of Public Health, Pakistain’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, Mohammad Sadiq Khan, stated that his country will continue to fund the three modern hospitals it has built in Afghanistan. The Pak official wrote in a string of tweets on Saturday, November 19, that he has met with Qalandar Ebad, the Taliban Minister of Public Health in an extraordinary meeting of the Afghanistan Inter-governmental Coordination Cell (AICC). According to the tweets, the Pak official gave the Taliban side assurance that Pakistain would cooperate with the Afghan people in the healthcare sector, notably by continuing to provide financial support for the three hospitals Pakistain has built in Afghanistan. "Pakistain has agreed to extend financial support for smooth operations of these hospitals in short to medium term and support the private sector to run these hospitals under public-private partnerships in the long term," Sadiq Khan wrote. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul the Afghan capital, Nishtar Kidney Center in Jalalabad of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, and Amanullah Pashtun-infested Logari Hospital in Pashtun-infested Logar in eastern Afghanistan are three of the modern hospitals Pakistain has built in Afghanistan. He further stated that in a bid to assist Afghanistan in becoming self-sufficient in the healthcare sector, Khyber Medical University Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , which has already trained hundreds of Afghan doctors, will establish medical college campuses in Afghanistan. This comes as the Pakistain-built Mohammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul was previously transformed into a teaching hospital after the Taliban Ministry of Public Health approved the transformation in mid-June this year. |
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