Standard healthcare system helps prevent outflow of asset, besides quality treatment at home

The people of Afghanistan have used nonstandard and low quality materials including food, fuel and the worst one medical items and equipment for years. Import of such items still continues to the country, depriving millions of Afghans from quality treatment. In the near past, drugstores throughout the country, roughly the capital Kabul have been packed with low-quality and date-expired medicines and the related organs failed to prevent their imports from other countries, mostly through illegal routes that dominated the country’s markets. Nonstandard hospitals have added to the problems, as well. All these challenges originate from the incompetence of the former government’s officials and their failure to standardize health services, despite the flow of billions of U.S. dollars in aid to secure a good government and develop public health services. Likewise, the popularity of the so-called ineffective Greek medication (or spice) in the country and the destituteness of thousands of Afghan patients to refer to the false hakims/medicine men or to leave for India and other neighboring countries, for seeking medical cures, can also be the result of the then government’s related organs’ failure to standardize the country’s health sector. Recently, the acting Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate called for international cooperation to standardize the health system in the country. This is a promising and effective plan and the first ever most helpful demand of the Islamic Emirate’s health authority from the world in the Qatar meeting, towards the standardization of the country’s health system. With the representatives of various countries, the country’s acting Minister of Public Health Dr. Qalandar Ebad in his meeting in Qatar stressed for International facilitation and cooperation to standardize Afghanistan’s health system, a decision (if God is willing) would put an end to the long miseries of the Afghans in regard to health services and outlawing other inequality and illegal drug imports from abroad and most importantly helping thousands of Afghan patients avoid unaffordable travel expenses to other countries for treatment. Although, international cooperation could not be relied on, to help improve the country’s health system in the long-term, the move by the country’s health officials to away with the poor health services, is commendable and praiseworthy. The International community, after helping the facilitation and providing cooperation in this field, can continue its cooperation in the technical and equipment of the country’s health system for a while and then continue providing professional training to the newly graduated medical staff.