Overview

Please click here (PDF, 1.5 MB) to view a report by Dr. Cheragh Ali, Chancellor of the Kabul Medical Institute, on the state of medical schools in Afghanistan as of 2004.

Excerpts from the presentation are as follows:

1. Due to civil war in 1992-1993 in Kabul, the infrastructure of the Kabul Medical Institute has been destroyed and all the lab equipment, teaching aids, books, furniture, and the printing house have been looted.
2. Student enrollment was not only through entrance examination, but through different channels and fake documents
3. Some faculties/teachers also have been employed without following academic norms & regulations by recommendations letters from the authorities.
4. There is not a printing press in any of these schools. As mentioned before, [the] very advanced and modern printing press of Kabul Medical Institute was unfortunately looted and destroyed in 1992-1993.
5. The situation in other medical schools is worse than Kabul, most of them are facing [a] lack of qualified teachers. [One] teacher is teaching 2-3 disciplines, [and there are] no lab facilities in any of them, except in Jalalabad.
   

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