{"id":11112,"date":"2026-04-21T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/taliban-health-minister-new-policy-southwest-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:30:21","slug":"taliban-health-minister-new-policy-southwest-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/taliban-health-minister-new-policy-southwest-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Health Minister Urges Effective Implementation of New Health Policy in Southwest Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mawlavi Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban-appointed Minister of Public Health, emphasized the provision of quality healthcare services to citizens during a coordination meeting with health officials from the southwest zone. He called for the effective implementation of the ministry&#8217;s new health policy. According to information released by the ministry, he urged provincial officials to use internal budgets transparently and responsibly, and to strengthen oversight of public and private health centers&#8217; activities. This comes amid ongoing citizen criticism and reports of inadequate facilities affecting healthcare quality in several provinces. Health officials from the southwest zone also raised their concerns and suggestions during the meeting and pledged to implement the ministry\u2019s new guidelines. At the conclusion of the meeting, the health minister assured that the issues raised would be addressed and called on officials to utilize available resources to provide quality health services to their communities. He emphasized that achieving this goal requires transparency, accountability, and continuous monitoring of health institutions\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Health Minister Noor Jalal insists on effective rollout of new health policy, transparency, and accountability to improve healthcare quality in Afghanistan\u2019s southwest zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}