{"id":15082,"date":"2026-06-13T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/13\/afghanistan-798k-health-contract-baghlan-badakhshan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:16:44","slug":"afghanistan-798k-health-contract-baghlan-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/13\/afghanistan-798k-health-contract-baghlan-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Signs $798,696 Health Services Contract for Baghlan and Badakhshan Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health has announced the signing of a contract worth $798,696 with the Aga Khan Health Services to strengthen and expand healthcare services in the provinces of Baghlan and Badakhshan. The one-year contract aims to provide essential health services in the targeted areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, healthcare will be delivered through 42 family health houses across the two provinces. These family health houses typically serve as the primary point of access for people to basic medical treatments, maternal and child care, and vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been stated that the program\u2019s implementation will create employment for 151 individuals. No further details have been released yet regarding the oversight mechanisms for contract implementation or the methods used to assess service quality.<\/p>\n<p>Baghlan and Badakhshan are among the provinces facing significant challenges in accessing healthcare due to geographical dispersion and lack of facilities. Therefore, the transparent and effective execution of such contracts is especially important to improve the health conditions of the local population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Public Health signs a $798,696 contract to improve healthcare in Baghlan and Badakhshan, with 42 clinics and 151 jobs created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","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=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}