World health organization: Afghanistan to run out of medical supplies soon, says WHO

The World Well being Organisation (WHO) has stated that war-ravaged Afghanistan has only some days of medical provides left to satisfy the well being wants of hundreds of thousands of individuals within the nation, in response to a media report.

The WHO stated that well being kits containing important provides, drugs for hospitals, dietary meals for acutely malnourished youngsters and gadgets for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic are quick in provide, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

Following the Kabul blasts on Thursday, trauma kits are additionally in excessive demand.

WHO’s emergency director for the Japanese Mediterranean area Rick Brennan stated the closure of Kabul airport for business plane has led it to discover different means to move medical provides.

“There are a number of safety and logistics constraints to doing so however we hope and anticipate that we can convey in additional provides within the coming days, with the help of the Pakistan authorities. Kabul airport isn’t an choice for bringing in provides at this stage and so we’re doubtless to make use of Mazar-i-Sharif airport, with our first flight hopefully going within the subsequent few days,” VOA quoted Brennan as saying.

Afghanistan is dealing with its worst-ever disaster in a long time after the Taliban took management of the nation. Because the state of affairs is deteriorating quickly, humanitarian wants have surged within the nation.

The UN has stated that just about 18 million individuals require world help and so they embody an estimated 3.5 million internally displaced individuals, amongst them greater than half one million newly displaced this yr, in response to VOA.

Nevertheless, Brennan has vowed that the WHO is dedicated to aiding the displaced and weak individuals in Afghanistan.

“Already we’re listening to that some feminine well being employees should not attending work and that there was a decline within the attendance of ladies and youngsters at some services. This once more highlights the necessity to guarantee the supply of medical provides, to help feminine well being employees of their work, and to encourage households to convey their moms and youngsters to hunt well being care after they want it,” he stated.

He additional stated that the WHO has workers in Afghanistan’s all 34 provinces and they’re monitoring the well being state of affairs intently. He additionally burdened that a lot of the 2,200 well being centres that WHO displays are open.