Afghanistan faces severe health crisis, 22 million need aid: WHO

Kabul [Afghanistan], August 29 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Afghanistan faces a terrible wellness situation arsenic 22 cardinal radical request aid, backing gaps person unopen clinics, and wide exile returns endanger to overwhelm fragile systems, Khaama Press reported.

The WHO has warned that Afghanistan faces a worsening humanitarian crisis, with much than 22 cardinal of the country's 46 cardinal radical successful urgent request of assistance. The country's wellness system, already fragile, is present connected the verge of collapse.

In its latest study released Thursday, WHO said implicit 16 cardinal Afghans person been targeted for life-saving assistance this year, yet lone 24 per cent of the required backing has been secured. The shortfall has near millions without entree to captious support.

The backing situation has forced the closure of much than 420 wellness facilities, cutting disconnected astir 3 cardinal radical from indispensable aesculapian services. Vulnerable groups, including women and children, person been deed hardest by these restrictions.

The WHO highlighted that maternal and kid wellness problems, wide malnutrition, and outbreaks of diseases specified arsenic measles and polio airs superior threats. In addition, rising intelligence wellness challenges are affecting ample segments of the Afghan population, compounding the humanitarian emergency.

Adding further pressure, Afghanistan is besides bracing for large-scale returns of migrants. According to the report, implicit 1 cardinal radical are expected to instrumentality from Pakistan and up to 2 cardinal from Iran successful 2025. So far, much than 8,36,000 Afghans person already returned, 92 per cent of them from Iran, arsenic per the Khaama Press report.

The looming situation underscores however inadequate planetary backing is worsening Afghanistan's humanitarian emergency. Without urgent support, millions could look preventable deaths from disease, hunger, and deficiency of aesculapian care.

The WHO has urged the planetary assemblage to measurement up assistance contributions, informing that nonaccomplishment to enactment volition deepen suffering and destabilize an already susceptible country, arsenic per Khaama Press. (ANI)