{"book":"adl0980","page":26,"text":"different pills and is experimenting on 40\nothers.\nThe Faculty of Science has arranged\ntwo courses for school teachers to provide\nthem with more information on physics\nand chemistry and opened a new depart-\nment on meteorology. The faculty is also\nconducting research on fauna and flora in\nAfghanistan under the supervision of a\nFrench professor.\nThe latest development in the Faculty\nof Science has been the establishment of\nthe Afghan Atomic Energy Commission\nto study the necessity for education on\natomic energy and the possibilities of\nutilising atomic energy for industry and\nagriculture. This commission is entrusted\nwith the task of making recommendations\nto the government on matters relating to\n\nMr. Mohammed Asghar. Chancellor of Kabul\nUniversity, cutting the ribbon to open the\ncapital's tablet-making laboratory.\n\nMedicine has printed ten papers written\nby various professors.\nThe blood bank sponsored by the\nFaculty of Medicine has collected and\ndonated more blood during the fourth\nyear of the Plan and many benefactors\nhave made donations to the bank.\nThe Aliabad 500-bed hospital has been\nequipped with up-to-date equipment.\nDuring the first part of the fourth year of\nthe Plan, 6,014 people were hospitalised\nand treated. 3,600 were operated upon\nand 7,150 ccs. of blood were transfused.\nThe 200-bed women's hospital was also\nsupplied with modern equipment.\nThe general clinics of Kabul University\ntreated 255,882 men and women, hos-\npitalised 7,402 people and supplied 18,036\npatients with medicine during the first\npart of the fourth year.\nThe most important step taken in the\nfield of pharmacology has been the\nimportation and installation of equipment\nfor a complete pharmaceutical plant which\nsupplies all the hospitals in the country\nthus saving a lot of foreign exchange.\nThe plant has so far manufactured 26\n\nStudents of the fourth grade of the Faculty of\nMedicine in their class room.\n\nThe Faculty of Science has a modern building equipped\nwith all facilities.\n\n23","chars":1991,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0980/00026.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":93,"title":"Afghan progress in the fourth year plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0980/26","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0980/canvas/26","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0980/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0980_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."}}