Unicef has announced the deploying of mobile health teams across Afghanistan to address concerns affecting women and children as a result of the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis.
The UN agency said on Monday that the teams will go throughout the country to those women and children who do not have access to health care. According to Unicef, the teams are prepared with emergency nutritional packages and will give assistance to malnourished children in Afghanistan.
The current situation in Afghanistan has worsened in the last year as conflict, drought, and the Covid-19 epidemic have merged to produce a humanitarian crisis. Essential services are on the edge of collapse, aggravating the demands of a population that is already fragile.
According to Unicef, more than half of the population, including 12.9 million children, requires help. Outbreaks of life-threatening infections are placing children's lives in jeopardy as the humanitarian crisis worsens. So far in 2021, tens of thousands of instances of measles have been reported in children, along with epidemics of acute watery diarrhoea, malaria, and dengue fever.
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