{"book":"adl0981","page":88,"text":"MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH\n\nOne of the main activities of the Ministry of Public Health has been to increase its contacts with the outside world.\n\nVarious delegations and individuals have been sent abroad, either to participate in health conferences and seminars or to further their own knowledge in particular fields with the object of giving better service to the Afghan nation on the conclusion of their foreign studies.\n\nIn the same way many experts, undertaken, such as malaria control, typhoid control, the campaigns against T.B. and smallpox, and training courses for nurses and medical students.\n\nA writ has been issued for conducting compulsory vaccinations against smallpox throughout Afghanistan.\n\nThe construction of a health centre was begun at Kurlanger, Logar, during the year. A hospital was opened at Shibirghan and medical personnel were sent to the Mobile Hospital Unit of Kandahar and\n\nThe 1338 graduates of the Midwifery Course at Kabul's Maternity Hospital\n\nspecialists and health advisers have been received at the Ministry from such outside sources as W.H.O. and U.N.I.C.E.F. These personalities in turn have helped the Ministry in promulgating new health measures or in continuing those already the X-Ray Unit of Nangarhar. The graduates of the Nursing, Midwifery, Dispensers' and Sanitarian Courses, as well as those of the School of Assistant Physicians and Assistant Dentists were sent to various provinces to begin active\n\n85","chars":1453,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00088.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/88","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/88","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_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."}}