{"id":20348,"date":"2024-05-10T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2024-05-10T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T07:24:38","slug":"global-aid-to-afghanistans-healthcare-sector-decreases-heightening-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/05\/global-aid-to-afghanistans-healthcare-sector-decreases-heightening-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Global aid to Afghanistan&#8217;s healthcare sector decreases, heightening concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The international entities have reduced their assistance to the healthcare sector in Afghanistan, said officials at the Ministry of Public Health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eshaq Sahibzada, the ministry&#8217;s financial and administrative officer, said that the decrease in global aid has led to the suspension of medical services at some clinics and doctors not get paid salaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the beginning of the year, the Islamic Emirate allocates its budget to the health sector. \u0698laiming to finance clinics, but halfway through the year, they say they cannot fund them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Qalandar Ebad, the Acting Head of the Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate, mentioned that currently, 13 types of vaccines for life-threatening childhood diseases are being administered free of charge to children under five years old at vaccination centers across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By administering these vaccines, we can prevent diseases such as polio, tetanus, influenza, pneumonia, measles, and several others,&#8221; Ebad said. He further highlighted that this year, 1.8 million children will receive various vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>However, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that childhood immunization could prevent the deaths of three million children annually.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah, a WHO representative, said, &#8220;Vaccines prevent the deaths of three million children every year. Today, Afghanistan faces serious threats from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, polio, COVID-19, and other illnesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Against the ongoing threats, World Immunization Week serves as a timely reminder of the importance of vaccine access for disease prevention and saving lives.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The international entities have reduced their assistance to the healthcare sector in Afghanistan, said officials at the Ministry of Public Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,16,194,218,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-report","category-world","category-health","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}