KABUL - Women and children make up two-thirds of the victims of the recent earthquakes in Afghanistan who were hospitalised with severe injuries, the head of the World Health Organisation's emergency response in the country said on Monday (Oct 9). The Taliban administration said at least 2,400 people were killed and over 2,000 injured in Saturday's quakes which were among...
People search for survivors amid the debris of a house that was destroyed by an earthquake in the district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, AfghanistanKABUL - Women and children make up two-thirds of the victims of the recent earthquakes in Afghanistan who were hospitalised with severe injuries, the head of the World Health Organisation's emergency response in the country said on Monday .
"The earthquake happened around 11 in the morning, when men were out of the houses, so majority of those who are injured and died are women and children who were inside the houses at the time," WHO's Dr Alaa AbouZeid told Reuters in a video interview. He also warned that financing the humanitarian operations remained critical, with global attention and funding shifting away from Afghanistan. That could be attributed to competing or emerging crises around the world, such in the Middle East and Ukraine, and amid concerns over Taliban restrictions on women, diplomats and aid officials say."I have seen a child like three-four months old with head trauma, due to the earthquake," he said.
While the response teams saved many lives, hospitals need to be better equipped to deal with further casualties and similar situations in future, he said.
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