{"id":25598,"date":"2026-11-08T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/afghanistan-self-sufficiency-222-medicines-130-pharmaceutical-factories\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:32:16","slug":"afghanistan-self-sufficiency-222-medicines-130-pharmaceutical-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/afghanistan-self-sufficiency-222-medicines-130-pharmaceutical-factories\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Achieves Self-Sufficiency in Producing 222 Types of Medicine with 130 Operating Pharmaceutical Factories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharafat Zaman Amarkhail, acting head of the Taliban-run Ministry of Public Health, announced that currently 130 pharmaceutical factories are active across the country. According to him, Afghanistan has achieved self-sufficiency in producing 222 types of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Amarkhail also stated that the productions of four pharmaceutical factories have been adapted to international standards through certain processes. However, it was emphasized that efforts to improve the quality of domestic medicines are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid numerous restrictions and challenges faced by the health and pharmaceutical sectors under the Taliban administration, and these reports should be critically assessed in light of on-the-ground realities.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Public Health has consistently faced problems such as lack of equipment, sanctions, and financial resource limitations, which have had a direct impact on the quality and quantity of pharmaceutical services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan has become self-sufficient in producing 222 medicines with 130 active pharmaceutical factories amid ongoing challenges in the health sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25598","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\/25598","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=25598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}