{"id":5633,"date":"2026-01-29T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/29\/taliban-opens-cancer-treatment-center-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:30:20","slug":"taliban-opens-cancer-treatment-center-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/29\/taliban-opens-cancer-treatment-center-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Ministry of Public Health Opens Cancer Treatment Center in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Health has officially inaugurated a cancer treatment center in Kabul, aiming to expand specialized health services. It is expected that its capacity will significantly increase in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening ceremony, Noor Jalal Jalali stated that the hospital is planned to offer more advanced treatment services for cancer patients in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>He added that establishing such centers can address some of the treatment needs of citizens within the country, whereas previously many patients were forced to seek treatment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts emphasize that developing cancer treatment infrastructure requires sustainable investment, skilled personnel, and regular access to standard equipment and medicines\u2014issues that remain major challenges for Afghanistan\u2019s health system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Health opens a cancer treatment center in Kabul to improve specialized health services and reduce patients seeking care abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","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\/5633","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=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}