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Some 500,000 Afghans receive health assistance this year: IOM
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IANS | 23 Oct, 2021
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said
it has been providing essential health services to people on the move
and hard-to-reach Afghans in an effort to prevent the war-torn country'
healthcare system from collapsing.
The agency said in a statement
on its website that the "IOM has stood on the front lines of the UN's
Covid-19 response in the country, with presence currently across four
border provinces: Herat, Nimroz, Kandahar and Nangarhar", reports Xinhua
news agency.
"Since the beginning of the year, almost half a
million people have received essential health assistance from IOM. IOM's
health teams now are rapidly preparing to increase capacity and adapt
support to fill urgent gaps to help ensure that the Afghan health-care
system does not collapse in the medium term," according to the UN
agency.
The security situation in Afghanistan has remained
generally calm but uncertain since the Taliban's takeover in August,
while the economic situation has worsened in the country with higher
unemployment rate and rising poverty.
UN agencies, aid
organisations and a number of non-governmental organisations are racing
against the time to deliver life-saving aid and supplies to crisis-hit
Afghans ahead of winter.
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