{"id":18737,"date":"2026-07-29T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/29\/construction-21-health-centers-afghanistan-underserved-areas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:00:22","slug":"construction-21-health-centers-afghanistan-underserved-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/29\/construction-21-health-centers-afghanistan-underserved-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of 21 Health Centers Begins in Underserved Areas of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has announced that, with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the construction of 21 public health facilities in underserved areas of Afghanistan is underway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, one of these centers is being built in eastern Kabul. The project aims to improve the conditions of healthcare centers and increase residents&#8217; access to health services.<\/p>\n<p>UN-Habitat emphasized that providing quality healthcare services depends not only on the presence of doctors and the supply of medicines but also fundamentally on the establishment and strengthening of health infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>This project is being implemented amid serious challenges facing Afghanistan&#8217;s healthcare system, including a lack of financial resources, shortage of female doctors, reduced humanitarian aid, and increasing demand for medical services\u2014challenges that have made access to basic health services difficult for many families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat, supported by JICA, has started building 21 public health centers in underserved Afghan areas to improve healthcare access and infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18737","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\/18737","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=18737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}