The board of education is confronting a drastic shortage of experienced and qualified teachers.
Saad Mukhar, the Kunduz provincial public health director, told AFP the city was facing "a serious, drastic shortage of medicine".
Campbell Robb, chief executive of the housing charity Shelter, said: "These figures are a heartbreaking reminder of the devastating impact our drastic shortage of affordable homes is having.
He struggles to counter the effects of the drastic shortage of dentists in rural areas and oral hygiene habits that have been slow to change.
Now a drastic shortage of mortgages is due to squeeze the rental supply once again, raising prices and making it a landlord's market.
In response, Campbell Robb, Shelter's chief executive, said: "We should be under no illusion that the biggest factor driving our housing crisis is the drastic shortage of affordable homes.
Far from allowing Pakistan "to stand on its own feet", as Mr Sharif said they would, the nuclear tests have brought an already unsteady economy to its knees.The government's immediate problem is a drastic shortage of cash.
Campbell Robb, Shelter's chief executive, said: "Our drastic shortage of affordable homes is leaving millions of people stuck in their childhood bedrooms in a bid to save money, or in expensive and unstable private renting with little hope of ever saving for a home to put down roots in".
With a drastic shortage of teachers in areas like science and math, the New York City school system is one of the latest converts to programs like the one at Lehman that short-circuit traditional approaches to teacher education, which typically take two to four years before a student is certified as ready to teach.
The Australian city of Townsville is facing a drastic shortage of sperm, according to Australian media.
