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work in hospitals all over the country.
A new Radiography and Radioscopy Unit has been installed in Kabul and has begun to operate, 12,739 people having been X-rayed during the year. Also a new course called the Physicians' High Course has been inaugurated, in which X-ray specialists are given the most recent information in the field. Thirty-eight students have been given specialised education in the campaign against malaria and have been sent to various campaign areas. Four qualified doctors have been sent abroad for further training in the struggle against this disease.
One of the new midwives receiving her certificate of graduation, complete wtih her photo, from the Deputy Minister of Public Health
An assistant dentist from the Central Institute of Dentistry at Kabul
HEALTH STATISTICS
A. CURATIVE INSTITUTIONS
Hospitals and Poli-clinics 52
Mobile Units 6
Technical personnel 773
B. PREVENTIVE INSTITUTIONS
Malarial campaign centres 11
Anti-V.D. centres 5
Maternity centres 17
Tuberculosis campaign centre 1
(a) Anti-Malaria campaign
Area of Activity
Kabul, Kandahar, Farah, Girishk, Herat, Pactya, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kataghan, Nangarhar, Badakhshan
Population covered
2,234,510
DDT used (lbs.)
534,000
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