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Since the motorboat of the caller Afghan visa module successful April 2025, much than 500 visas, including implicit 200 aesculapian visas, person been issued successful the past 4 months, noted a elder Health Ministry authoritative connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) adding that India has present approved and implemented respective cardinal healthcare infrastructure projects successful Afghanistan.
These see the operation of 5 maternity and wellness clinics successful the provinces of Paktia, Khost and Paktika, a 30-bed infirmary successful Kabul, and the operation oregon upgradation of large facilities specified arsenic an Oncology Centre, Trauma Centre, Diagnostic Centre and Thalassemia Centre successful Kabul. Additional proposals for wellness assemblage enactment are presently nether progressive consideration.
On Thursday, India reaffirmed its continued committedness to supporting Afghanistan’s wellness assemblage and humanitarian needs during a gathering held betwixt Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda and Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali.
During the meeting, some sides reviewed ongoing wellness practice and discussed avenues to further fortify collaboration successful healthcare infrastructure, aesculapian supplies and capableness building.
People-centric engagement
The Union Minister underlined that guided by India’s long-standing people-centric approach, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ever emphasised that India’s engagement with Afghanistan should stay focused connected welfare, capableness gathering and entree to captious healthcare services.
Mr. Nadda added that India’s assistance to Afghanistan remains guided by humanitarian considerations and the long-standing bonds betwixt the peoples of the 2 countries.
“India has supplied 327 tonnes of medicines and vaccines to Afghanistan implicit the past 4 years. Cancer medicines and 1 CT scan machine, arsenic requested by the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, are acceptable for dispatch and volition beryllium delivered by the extremity of this month. Proposals from the Afghan broadside for a radiotherapy instrumentality and further aesculapian supplies are besides being processed,” the Health Minister said.
The gathering besides discussed capacity-building initiatives. India is moving connected modalities to nonstop a squad of elder Indian doctors to Afghanistan to organise a aesculapian campy and supply grooming to Afghan doctors. The occurrence of the Jaipur Foot Camp organised successful Kabul successful June 2025, wherever 75 prosthetic limbs were fitted, was highlighted, with plans to organise much specified camps successful the coming year.
“At the meeting, India has reiterated its committedness to providing escaped attraction successful India to Afghan patients suffering from exigency and superior ailments, and to facilitating aesculapian visas,” said a Health Ministry official.
