Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched the procurement of advanced diagnostic equipment worth 151.85 million afghanis for Aino Mina Hospital in the southern province of Kandahar.
The ministry's press office said the purchase covers one 1.5-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine and one 128-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner, funded from the ministry's domestic budget for the 1405 fiscal year. The process has reached the contract-award stage with a domestic company and is expected to be completed in the coming days.
Officials say installing the equipment will significantly boost the hospital's diagnostic capacity and allow it to offer standard medical services to patients.
Separately, the Jalalah Charity Foundation donated medical consumables worth 137,000 afghanis to the haemodialysis unit of Asadabad Provincial Hospital in Kunar province.