KUNDUZ (SW): Officials at the Kunduz Provincial Council have said that more than 65% of private hospitals in Kunduz operate without permits.
Safiullah Amiri, the deputy chairman of the Kunduz Provincial Council, told Salam Watandar joint inspection of private hospitals with the public authorities and other institutions has revealed that most of the doctors and health workers in these clinics and hospitals are inexperienced and recent graduates. “Most of those who graduated from private educational institutes have opened private clinics”, he added.
Some residents of Kunduz city also complained about the lack of quality healthcare services at private hospitals, and said that most clinics have been deceiving the public with fake advertisements.
Shir Mohammad, a resident of Kunduz city, said a new private clinic starts its services every other day, however, no department or authority ever ask them for a permit. He added most of the private healthcare centers have been deceiving people.
“Most of the clinics in Kunduz, neither have professional doctors nor quality medicine, in fact, most of the time there is no doctor available”, said Nasir Ahmad, another resident of Kunduz.
Abdul Matin Atifi, the head of Directorate of Public Health in Kunduz, has confirmed the problems of the residents of the province, however, he said that the government has closed down the unlicensed clinics. According to him, of the 21 private clinics in Kunduz, 6 clinics had no permits which have been shut down.
Meanwhile, according to a report of Salam Watandar, doctors at one of the private hospitals in Kunduz took the lives of two sisters in one day under a surgical operation.
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