KABUL. Feb 14 (Interfax-AVN) - The Afghan Foreign and Healthcare Ministries have filed official requests with Russia asking to expand activities of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's humanitarian center in Kabul, the head of the center, Colonel Alexander Mezhov, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
"The Afghan leadership is satisfied coordination of Russian humanitarian cargo deliveries by the Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists currently staying in Kabul. Afghan officials also praise the results of medical aid to local population provided by Russian specialists, but wish that the scale of that aid grew," Mezhov said.
According to him, "after the transfer of an aeromoblile field hospital of the Russian Emergencies Ministry to the Afghan Healthcare Ministry on January 20, a brigade of Russian doctors comprising 14 people continued its work in the Ibn Sina hospital in Kabul." "They have treated 834 sick people and performed 223 surgeries since January 20, 2002," Mezhov said.
Moreover, "the parties are completing development of projects of polytechnic center and humanitarian mine-clearance center establishment in Kabul are being ," Mezhov noted. The centers will teach people the professions that Afghanistan needs the most.