Bitter Medicine in Helmand
Imported pharmaceuticals pose real risk to those who take them.
Imported pharmaceuticals pose real risk to those who take them.
Provision at both state and private hospitals remains inadequate, and those who can afford it go abroad for better treatment.
Much more needs to be done to stop children being shut away at home for lack of treatment and educational opportunities.
Second-hand goods flooding local market often make a bad buy and add to growing rubbish problem.
Either harmless pastime or slippery slope to drug abuse, water-pipes have taken off among young men.
Disabled ex-soldiers say they are denied free medicines and hospital care.
Heroin users need long-term treatment – and that requires funding from a government that seems unaware of scale of addiction.
State-funded insurance scheme captures only minority of population.
Fewer recorded cases than Russia, but country needs more specialised clinics offering treatment.