14 MHUs to be established in five provinces.Byline: Pajhwok Report 14 MHUs to be established in five provinces Pajhwok Report - Jun 17, 2008 - 18:10 KABUL (PAN): MoPH-UNFPA programme introduces 14 Mobile Health Units (MHUs) during the current year to cover 20 districts in five focus provinces, namely Badakhshan, Bamyan, Daikundi, Fariab and Logar. The MHU MHU Mental Health Unit MHU Material Handling Unit MHU Munitions Handling Unit MHU Major Hazard Unit would act as a link between the community and the health facility and would ensure that every person, especially all pregnant mothers, living in these 20 districts receive basic health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract and facilitate referral wherever required. Maternal and Child Health is a very important priority for the Ministry of Public Health. Healthy development of a nation depends on better health of its women and children. Therefore investment in maternal and child health is investment for the prosperity of a nation said Dr. Faizullah Kakar, Acting Minister of Public Health. One of the challenges towards service delivery in regard to maternal and child health is access to health services by the families. With the deployment of these 14 mobile clinics the families will be having easy access to the services and it will definitely improve health status of women and children in those 20 districts he added. The MHUs will provide ante-natal and immunisation services disseminate health education and provide supportive guidance to the CHW CHW Chicago White Sox CHW Catholic Healthcare West CHW Children's Hospital at Westmead (Australia) CHW Children's Hospital of Wisconsin CHW Community Health Worker CHW ChileHardware (Spanish website) and other health functionaries at the community level. The MHU will visit a nodal point nodal point n. One of the two points in a compound optical system, located so that a light ray directed through the first point will leave the system through the second point, parallel to its original direction. Also called axial point. , which a village accessible to the vehicle, on a fixed day of the month. Each such nodal point will receive one or more visits from the MHU depending on the area of coverage. The capital cost of 14 MHUs is around USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 580,000 and the annual operating cost is around USD 250,000. The total investment of UNFPA UNFPA United Nations Population Fund (formerly United Nations Fund for Population Activities) UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities (now United Nations Population Fund) in these 20 districts during 2008 is around USD2.98 million in addition to the above cost. MoPH and UNFPA conduct continuous monitoring of the Reproductive Health Services and MHU activities in the field. Pr/ajr Copyright A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] Pajhwok Afghan News. All rights reserved.
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