Afghan health care system is on the verge of collapse due to the termination of donor support to the country’s largest project in the field of health protection. This is reported to the Hindustan Times with reference to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Greesusus and the WHO Regional Director for Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhary.
According to them, the country threatens an ambulance humanitarian catastrophe if urgent measures are not taken. “Thousands of health care facilities remained without funding for medical supplies and salaries for staff,” said WHO.
According to Gebresus and al-Mandhary, only 17 percent of medical institutions in Afghanistan are fully prepared for work. The country ceased to fight Coronavirus in all directions. The authorities do not lead epidemiological observation, testing and vaccination. About 1.8 million doses of the preparation from COVID-19 remain unused. Nine of 37 hospitals for patients with coronavirus closed.
In WHO also emphasize that it is necessary to keep access to medicine for women. The organization fears that the reduction of medical personnel from the number of women will lead to the fact that Afghanski will not apply for medical help.
At the end of August, Ahmed Al-Mandhary said that Afghan medical institutions end the reserves of medicines. He stressed that internal migration and riots engulfed the country increase the risk of new outbreaks of COVID-19.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antoniou Guterrish called on to make a number of exceptions from the sanctions against the Taliban (the organization is prohibited in Russia) to avoid the collapse of the Afghan economy and create conditions for the effective distribution of humanitarian assistance. He stressed that the main task of the UN and the international community is to avoid a catastrophic humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.