Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that he met Taliban Health Minister Qalander Ebad for chats on the “dire” healthcare and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Ghebreyesus revealed that the meeting occurred in Geneva on Tuesday.
Humanitarian Crisis Continues To Put Lives In Danger
Ebad is important for a Taliban assignment visiting Geneva for seven days of talks with organizations and non-legislative offices on humanitarian access and basic freedoms, as Afghanistan’s new rulers grow their global commitment.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan last August, the nation has dove into monetary disarray, with expansion and unemployment flooding, while the stopping of help and US sanctions has set off a compassionate emergency in a nation previously crushed by many years of war. Tedros had effectively met Ebad during his visit to Kabul in September 2021 directly following the Taliban takeover.
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“Notwithstanding a few enhancements from that point forward, the healthcare circumstance in Afghanistan is as yet desperate and the intense humanitarian crisis is proceeding to put lives in danger,” Tedros said after his meeting with the Health Minister in Geneva.
He said they examined healthcare needs in the nation, fortifying the framework, crisis readiness, and preparing the healthcare labor force, in which ladies are focal. “The intense need in Afghanistan is to convey diagnostics to distinguish the Covid-19 infection, and specifically Omicron, as the quantity of cases is on the ascent,” Tedros said.
Taliban To Investigate The Issue Of Missing Female Activists
In another update, during the meeting with Deborah Lyons, the UN Secretary-General’s exceptional emissary to Afghanistan, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi guaranteed to determine the issue of the missing female activists, it was declared.
As per the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Lyons and Muttaqi held the meeting on Wednesday during which the Taliban Minister “guaranteed of endeavors to determine issue. His helpful methodology invited. UN keeps on connecting with Taliban to help government assistance and freedoms, everything being equal”.
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January, Zahra Mohammadi and Mursal Ayar vanished keep going week, On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres likewise communicated worries over the prosperity of the activists.
“I’m progressively worried about the prosperity of missing ladies activists in Afghanistan. A few have ‘vanished’, some not heard from in weeks,” he said in a tweet.
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