UNITED NATION: The UN has announced the release of $45 million in emergency funds to help prevent Afghanistan's health care system from collapse.
"Allowing Afghanistan's health care delivery system to fall apart would be disastrous, " Xinhua news agency quoted UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths as saying in a statement on Wednesday.
"People across the country would be denied access to primary health care such as emergency caesarian sections and trauma care, " he said.
The funding will go to the World Health Organization and the Unicef, and will keep health care facilities, including hospitals treating Covid-19 patients, operating until the end of the year, according to the Undersecretary-General.
The UN is determined to stand by the people of Afghanistan in their hour of need, Griffiths added.