{"id":8264,"date":"2022-02-05T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:55:19","slug":"more-aid-needed-for-afghanistan-says-icrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/more-aid-needed-for-afghanistan-says-icrc\/","title":{"rendered":"More aid needed for Afghanistan, says ICRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described the state of Afghanistan&#8217;s healthcare system as &#8220;worrying&#8221; and said that humanitarian efforts were not enough to prevent it from collapsing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@ICRC_af <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">tries to prevent the collapse of the Health System and allow Health Workers <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0to continue providing lifesaving services to people Humanitarian efforts won\u2019t be enough to compensate for the collapse of the public sector More has to be done&#8221;, <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Eloi Fillion, head of thee ICRC <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">delegation in Afghanistan tweeted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-6gpygo r-14gqq1x\" data-testid=\"UserName\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stressed that the organization is working to prevent the collapse of Afghanistan&#8217;s health system. He added that humanitarian efforts alone do not meet Afghanistan&#8217;s health needs and that the world should invest in them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Javed Hajir, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, welcomed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)&#8217;s efforts for Afghanistan&#8217;s health sector, but he did not consider it enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the Afghan health system has already become a dependent system, the assistance that is being provided in this area is somewhat good, but not enough at the moment,&#8221; the spokesman told Salam Watandar. &#8220;As long as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the health sector manage to stand on their own two feet, national and international assistance is urgently needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, international aid organizations warned about the collapse of Afghanistan&#8217;s health system.<\/p>\n<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report that Afghanistan&#8217;s healthcare system was on the verge of collapse and that more than 90 percent of the country&#8217;s health facilities were expected to close.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described the state of Afghanistan&#8217;s healthcare system as &#8220;worrying&#8221; and said that humanitarian efforts were not enough to prevent it from collapsing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,18,200,24,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[624,666,12],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-women","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-icrc","tag-humanitarian","tag-afghanistan"],"views":517,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","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=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}