KABUL, Oct 23 (NNN-ANA) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said yesterday, it has been providing essential health services to people on the move and hard-to-reach Afghans while supporting the country, to prevent the health-care system from a breakdown.
The agency said, in a release on its website that, “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.”
“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 mid-Aug, 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 time, to deliver life-saving aid and supplies ahead of winter.– NNN-ANA
