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Central Statistical Office
Ministry of Planning
1979
  1. Total population: 15.5 Million
  2. Sedentary population - 13 Million
  3. Nomadic population - 2.5 Million
  4. Rural - 11.3 million
  5. Urban - 1.7 million
  6. Birth Rate - 45.2 / 100 population
  7. Death Rate - 21.07 / 100 population

Health Statistics of Afghanistan 1979
  1. Hospitals - 66
  2. Basic Health Care Centers - 151 (Approx.. 1/7500 people)
  3. Total # of beds - 3666 (1/4000 people)
  4. Doctors - 886 ( 1/1700 people)
  5. Nurses - 997 ( 1/1500 people)
  6. 1980 M.D. - 77 K.U.
  7. M.D. - 89 Nan. U.
  8. 1980 Nurses - 42 Male / 22 Female } Nursing Schools
  9. Dental Clinics - 52

Ministry of Public Health
Other Medical Personnel
1979

  1. Dentists - 95
  2. Midwifes - 376
  3. Pharmacists - 128
  4. Lab Technician - 171
  5. Compounder - 115
  6. Physical Therapist - 16

Ministry of Public Health
1979

  1. Malaria Institute:
  2. Malaria C & T - 43,800+ / Tr
  3. Control of TB - 22,548+ / Tr
  4. Family Guidance - 80,396 families enrolled

Ministry of Public Health
1979

    Avecina Pharmaceutical Institute

    Vaccine Production
  1. Cholera - 9527 cc
  2. Small Pox - N.R.
  3. Typhoid - 401,280 cc
  4. Rabies
  5. Human - 58,080 cc
  6. Animal - 7,775 cc

Ministry of Public Health
1979
Mass Immunization Program

     

  1. B.C.G. 923,103

    2.  

  2. Small Pox 643,323

    3.  

  3. D.P.T. 985,913

    Total 2,552,339