{"id":2945,"date":"2021-01-26T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:20:36","slug":"health-ministry-criticizes-who-unicef-over-surge-in-polio-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/01\/health-ministry-criticizes-who-unicef-over-surge-in-polio-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Health ministry criticizes WHO, UNICEF over surge in polio cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Officials at the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday criticized the WHO and UNICEF for alleged poor polio vaccination drive across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the World Health Organization and UNICEF or the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund, which are responsible for the polio vaccine program, have not performed their responsibilities properly and that there is no transparency in their reporting to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is going on in the polio program in Afghanistan is not acceptable and satisfactory for the leadership of this ministry and the government,&#8221; Wahid Majrooh, deputy minister of health services at the Ministry of Public Health, told a news conference in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>He added, although large sums of money are spent on the polio eradication program by UNICEF and the World Health Organization in Afghanistan, the statistics of polio cases in Afghanistan are worrying.<\/p>\n<p>According to the deputy minister, in 2020 alone 56 positive cases of polio were recorded across the country while in 2019 only 29 cases were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday criticized the WHO and UNICEF for alleged poor polio vaccination drive across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,5,8,4,6],"tags":[12,452,453],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-who","tag-unicef"],"views":533,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}