Afghanistan healthcare ‘on brink of collapse’ amid Omicron scare

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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/16/afghanistan-healthcare-omicron-covid-children-hospital

Afghanistan healthcare ‘on brink of collapse’ amid Omicron scare
Doctors are bracing for more infections that they fear are inevitable with the new coronavirus variant.
16 Dec 2021

The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still show up for work, but they are struggling to make ends meet at home.

This is the plight at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital, the only COVID-19 facility for the more than four million people who live in the capital, Kabul...

 

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Source: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2021-12/31/content_77964057.htm


Rising health risks continue to threat Afghan children: UNICEF
Xinhua, December 31, 2021

KABUL, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Millions of Afghan children are increasingly vulnerable to disease due to a combination of rising malnutrition, food crisis and a deteriorating humanitarian situation, according to a statement of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

"As the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in Afghanistan, outbreaks of life-threatening diseases are putting children's lives at risk. More than 66,000 cases of measles have been so far reported in children in 2021," the statement posted on the UNICEF-Afghanistan website said.

There have also been outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea, malaria and dengue fever. Four cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV-1) have been confirmed this year, it added.

"We are approaching a critical juncture for Afghanistan's children, as winter brings with it a multitude of threats to their health," Abdul Kadir Musse, UNICEF Afghanistan representative, was quoted in the statement as saying...