{"book":"adl0973","page":241,"text":"medium of instruction is Persian. A medical\nschool was started in the second year of\nH. M.'s reign providing junior medical\ninstruction to many young men of the\ncountry. All the expenses of the various\ninstitutions are borne by the Government.\nNo fees are charged and nearly 20% of the\nstudents, besides getting the benefits of\nfree tuition, free books and other materials,\nare paid handsome stipends. Every Habibya\nCollege student without exception gets 20\nAfghanis per mensem for the first year, 30 for\nthe second and 40 for the third year. Faculty\nstudents, in addition to their monthly stipends\nof 50 Afghanis each, get free meals and\nclothing. Great care is taken of the health\nof the students. The Ministry of Education\nhas a well-equipped dispensary and a qualified\ndoctor. The students are properly examined\nand treated; no charge is made either for\nconsultation or for treatment. In serious\ncases students are sent abroad on Government\nexpense. While writing about the medical\naid for the students, it will not be out of\nplace to mention the medical arrangements\nmade for the general public. Many hospitals\n\n186","chars":1120,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00241.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/241","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/241","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}