Red Cross Warns Afghanistan Health System On Verge Of Collapse

 

The Hill: Red Cross warns of looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan 

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where there is an urgent need of money and other aid in the wake of the Taliban’s consolidation of power and the U.S. troop withdrawal.

IFRC Asia Pacific Regional Director Alexander Matheou said in remarks from Kabul Thursday that the international aid organization is “deeply concerned that Afghanistan faces imminent collapse of health services and worsening hunger if aid and money do not flow into the country within weeks.”  

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WNU Editor: The U.S. and its Western allies are not going to fully reinstate their aid transfers and aid disbursements to Afghanistan with the Taliban in power. there will be some aid, but a fraction of what it once was.

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