A nation's healthcare system at 'risk of collapse' - Afghan doctors and health minister describe the looming catastrophe
Afghanistan's healthcare system is on the brink of catastrophe, the acting Afghan health minister and a WHO representative have told Insider.
. It has committed more than $5.3 billion to projects in Afghanistan since 2002, according to the BBC."When we hear messages from the World Bank or the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund donors - whether they say that they have put our funds on hold, or they've frozen them - what that means to me is 3700 health facilities will collapse. That the health of 35 million people will collapse," he said.
"Before the collapse of the Government, we had three flights lined up to bring supplies in as part of our support for the regular program and the increasing need in the country. But these didn't make it because there are no commercial flights into the country," he said. A wounded patient lays in the recovery unit at Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital. in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021"It is only men that are allowed inside the hospital," a distressed midwife in Afghanistan told Insider over the phone.
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