{"id":682948,"date":"2021-08-25T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=682948"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T15:51:06","slug":"afghanistan-now-facing-humanitarian-disaster-health-system-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/afghanistan-now-facing-humanitarian-disaster-health-system-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Now Facing \u2018Humanitarian Disaster,\u2019 Health System \u2018Collapsing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafghanistan-now-facing-humanitarian-disaster-health-system-collapsing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=682948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Afghan-5-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Afghanistan is facing a second crisis \u2014 a humanitarian crisis \u2014 as western countries race to pull citizens and allies from Kabul and international aid organizations, concerned with funding international terrorism, pull the plug on aid programs to the beleaguered country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/24\/afghanistan-is-facing-vast-humanitarian-disaster-not-only-airport\/\">Washington Post reports Wednesday<\/a> that Afghanistan, \u201cone of the poorest and most aid-dependent countries in the world,\u201d is now facing several threats at once: the return of the Taliban and the departure of coalition allies, COVID-19, and a drought that has ravaged the country\u2019s food supply leaving at least a third of the population without food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn internal document of the World Food Program warns that, \u2018A humanitarian crisis of incredible proportions is unfolding before our eyes. Conflict combined with drought and covid-19 is pushing the people of Afghanistan into a humanitarian catastrophe,&#8217;\u201d according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to this document, more than 1 in 3 Afghans \u2014 some 14 million people \u2014 are hungry today, while 2 million children are malnourished and urgently need treatment. More than 3.5 million \u2014 out of a population of 38 million \u2014 are internally displaced. Just to make matters worse, a massive drought has devastated crops. More than 40 percent of the country\u2019s crops were lost to drought this year,\u201d the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>Aid organizations, including the United Nations, initially said they would stay in Afghanistan even after the United States pulls out on August 31st, but the rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground has left even the U.N. concerned for its workers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/06\/1094542\">United Nations actually warned<\/a>, back in July, that \u201ctime was running out,\u201d and that a \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d was arising in Afghanistan, even as the Biden administration insisted it was not aware of the Taliban\u2019s military blitz.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the military crisis, Afghanistan is suffering from a \u201cdevastating third wave\u201d of COVID-19, according to National Public Radio, and its fledgling health care system is now on the verge of total \u201ccollapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent weeks, there\u2019s been an exponential rise in cases, even with limited testing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/07\/02\/1010386264\/a-crippling-third-wave-of-covid-adds-to-afghanistans-woes\">NPR reported<\/a>. \u201cOn June 16, there were 2,313 new cases, which the United Nations reports was \u201cthe highest number of new cases [in Afghanistan] recorded in a single day since the onset of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the United Nations says that nearly half of all people being tested in recent weeks \u2014 42% \u2014 are positive for the coronavirus, suggesting it is widespread,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s health system is collapsing,\u201d the Washington Post added. \u201cOne official still at his post in Kabul, who spoke to me anonymously because he was not authorized to do so, told me: \u201cWe don\u2019t have medicine, consumables and required basic equipment in the government-run hospitals. Staff salaries are pending for the last three months at least.\u201d And this is taking place while Afghanistan is suffering from a crippling third wave of covid-19, the true dimensions of which are unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation may soon worsen. <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/08\/18\/taliban-afghan-funds-us-reserves-biden-foreign-aid-nato\/\">Fortune Magazine noted<\/a>&nbsp;last week that countries are now \u201cracing\u201d to head off financial aid disbursements to Afghanistan, over concerns the money could simply end up in the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan is facing a second crisis \u2014 a humanitarian crisis \u2014 as western countries race to pull citizens and allies from Kabul and international aid organizations, concerned with funding international &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}