Afghanistan’s Food and Drug Authority has meanwhile said that in the last month, they have destroyed 250 tons of low-quality food and medicine…reports Asian Lite News
Kabul residents have said that increase in low-quality medicine in the city is causing problems, TOLO News reported.
TOLO News is an Afghan news channel broadcasting from Kabul. The residents called on officials to prevent the sale of low-quality drugs. A Kabul resident, Yahya, said: “Afghanistan’s doctors are the best and most qualified doctors in the whole world. The only problem that we have is low-quality drugs.”
“Make the quality of the medicine very high, its quality is low. When someone gets sick, they take the medicine, and they blame the doctor,” said Ibrahim, another resident of Kabul.
“If our medicine is of good quality, why should we go to Pakistan, and why should we benefit a foreign land?” said Kabul resident Gelender Shah, according to TOLO News.
Afghanistan’s Food and Drug Authority has meanwhile said that in the last month, they have destroyed 250 tons of low-quality food and medicine.
“159 tons of food and medicine were destroyed in Nangarhar on Saturday, and we also destroyed approximately eight tons of food and medicine in Khost province, and more than 300 tons of other materials are ready to be destroyed in Kabul,” said Jawed Hazhar, spokesman of the Afghanistan Food and Drug Authority, according to TOLO News.
Based on the numbers of the National Drug and Food Authority, 147 pharmacies have been closed in the capital in the past month due to the sale of low-quality drugs, high prices, and lack of night service.
Turkish help in education
Two new studios have been established by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TiKA) inside Mirac TV, a network that distributes educational and cultural content across Afghanistan, inorder to facilitate support for education in the crisis-hit country, Khaama Press reported.
Quoting Yeni Safak, a Turkish daily, the Afghan news agency reported that the studio designs were built expressly to meet distance education criteria, taking into account the nation’s limited access to higher education and the large portion of the population lacking literacy. The project concentrates on rural Afghanistan and uses Mirac TV programmes to promote people’s access to education, which has been hindered since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
The project’s inauguration was attended by Ali Akber Zerrin, the director of the Afghan Education Institute, Arafat Deniz, the TiKA Herat coordinator, Habibullah Ferahi, and Veli Ah Behre, the manager of the Abdulvahid Behre Cultural Centre, according to Khaama Press.
Deniz, the coordinator of TIKA in Afghanistan’s Herat, emphasised during the event that education remains a top priority in the nation and that TIKA’s commitment to supporting circumstances for remote learning tackles the sector’s present difficulties.
Girls and women have been prohibited from enrolling in secondary education in Afghanistan since August 2021.
In the meantime, since last December, de facto authorities have prohibited women from enrolling in universities. The girls have been denied access to their basic human rights amid a terrible humanitarian crisis for almost two years, despite the Taliban government’s assurances that it will only be temporary. (ANI)
