{"id":19150,"date":"2026-03-07T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19150"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:51:58","slug":"health-minister-meets-uk-special-envoy-britain-pledges-continued-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/07\/health-minister-meets-uk-special-envoy-britain-pledges-continued-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister meets UK Special Envoy; Britain pledges continued support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Noor Jalal Jalali, Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, held a virtual meeting with Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom\u2019s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, according to a statement from the ministry on Saturday.<br>During the discussion, the two sides reviewed several issues, including the current state of healthcare services, strengthening and expanding the health system, improving the capacity of medical staff, the nature of specialization training programs, and the cooperation of international organizations with Afghanistan\u2019s health sector.<br>Jalali expressed appreciation for the United Kingdom\u2019s support for Afghanistan\u2019s health sector and said that additional assistance and cooperation are still needed to expand essential health services.<br>According to the statement, the UK\u2019s special envoy reaffirmed London\u2019s commitment to continued support for Afghanistan\u2019s healthcare system, emphasizing that the United Kingdom will maintain cooperation to strengthen, expand, and sustainably support the country\u2019s health sector.<br>Efforts by the Afghan Ministry of Public Health and its partner organizations to expand healthcare services and improve their standards are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Noor Jalal Jalali, Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, held a virtual meeting with Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom\u2019s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, according to a statement from the ministry on Saturday.During the discussion, the two sides reviewed several issues, including the current state of healthcare services, strengthening and expanding the health system, improving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19150\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}