KABUL: National Health Workers Day has been marked by the country’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Kabul. In a ceremony held on this occasion the other day, deputy minister of public health Habibullah Akhundzada by appreciating the country’s health workers for their work said currently there were 30,000
health workers, 13,622 health posts, 1,914 health observers, 21,230 health councils, 10,786 health groups and 370 health nets operating under the CBHC in various parts of the country.
Deputy minister of public health considered role of health workers in reduction of maternal and child mortality, vaccination and better health delivery as important, promising that the ministry of public health was working together with its partners to somehow increase the salaries of the health workers in the country.
It is worth mentioning that National Health Workers Day is marked annually by the ministry of public health in the country.
Samiullah Momand