01 Apr. 2008
The Czech Republic-led PRT will reconstruct several public health facilities in Lowgar province in the East of Afghanistan. After thirty years of fighting, afghan public health facilities are in ruins. There are not enough beds for patients, medicines, water or electricity for the hospitals.
Ground breaking for the Pole Alam Comprehensive Health Clinic was celebrated on March 31st. The Health Clinic will be built inside the existing compound of the Pole Alam Hospital.
Women in burkas, the all-covering scarfs, are waiting next to the women’s part of the hospital. “We are providing vaccination for women and children today,” said Nasina, a female doctor who works in the maternity ward of the Hospital. “We had around 40 deliveries when the hospital was open. After four years we have had 500 deliveries a month. Women have to leave the hospital six hours after delivery, because we do not have enough rooms for them” Nasina said.
There are not enough beds in the other departments of the hospital either. The new comprehensive health clinic will provide 20 more beds in this centrally located district of Pole Alam.
In autumn, a new building with septic, plumbing, electrical systems and a water tank will be built inside the hospital.
In addition to this new building in the provincial hospital, the PRT will also reconstruct the hospital in Mohammad Aga District.
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