KABUL (SW) – A number of citizens complain about the lack of specialist doctors in hospitals and say that some doctors, who cannot diagnose their disease, send them to other hospitals.
Samad Salam, a resident of Faryab province, told Watandar that due to the lack of specialist doctors in this province, people are forced to refer to doctors who have less experience.
He said: “We don’t have professional and expert doctors in surgery, admission and other fields. They are doctors who have just graduated and have little experience. They treat people and people also have to come to them and buy medicine from them.”
Health officials at a number of government hospitals indirectly confirm the absence and shortage of specialist doctors in the hospitals.
Malalai Rahim Faizi, director of Malalai Maternity Hospital, said: “There is a problem of shortage of specialist doctors in Afghanistan. If there is a specialist doctor in the districts, the patient will not visit Kabul. There is a problem in Afghanistan as a whole and there are few beds in hospitals, staff and personnel are few and there are also few experienced doctors.”
A while back, during a meeting, the officials of the Ministry of Public Health requested the Afghan doctors who went abroad after the fall of the republic to return to the country.
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