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Kabul: Today coincides with the World Malaria Day; the World Health Organization says that the incidence of this disease has doubled in Afghanistan.
According to the figures published by this organization on its Twitter page today, Afghanistan has recorded 125,788 cases of malaria.
This organization added that the cases of malaria in Afghanistan in 2022 have increased by 45% compared to 2021.
The World Health Organization has said: “About 90 percent of the cases are related to the four eastern provinces, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan.”
“Meanwhile, Sharaf Zaman Amarkhil, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate, also confirmed to reporters the increase in malaria cases in Afghanistan last year, but said that the total number of malaria patients has been decreasing since 2016.
He said: “From 2016 to 2022, the incidence of malaria in Afghanistan has decreased by 67 percent. If we compare the cases of 2022 with that of 2021, there has been an increase of approximately 45 percent in cases of malaria in 2022, which is due to lack of access to good health services and hygiene.
According to the information of the Ministry of Public Health, 10 provinces of Afghanistan have been completely cleared of falciparum malaria and there have been no deaths due to this disease in Afghanistan in the last four years.
Malaria is a deadly but preventable and treatable parasitic disease that is transmitted to humans from the Anopheles mosquito and is more common in tropical countries.
