After the earthquake, Afghanistan may face the cholera epidemic situation

Jimu Journalist Li Lili

Intern Yang Shaopeng

According to CNN reports on June 27, the United Nations agency has issued a warning of might be cholera to Afghanistan. Afghanistan health officials said the country urgently needs clean water and food.

On June 22, local time, an earthquake occurred in eastern Afghanistan, which was the worst earthquake that occurred in Afghanistan in 20 years. The earthquake caused at least 1,000 people to die, more than 2,000 people were injured, and more than 10,000 houses were destroyed.

The UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA) warned that after the earthquake, Afghanistan had the risk of overeating cholera.

Earthquake injury (picture source: CNN)

It is reported that cholera is a kind of acute diarrhea infectious disease caused by the contaminated foods or water intake by cholera.

Afghanistan Health spokesman Salafat Zaman said: "People need food and clean water. We ask the international community and humanitarian organizations to provide us with food and medicine. Since the survivors do not have suitable houses and homes, they may Infectious Diseases."

In Kabul, hospitals used to treat wars and crowds have been opened to the victims. However, most victims still choose to stay in the disaster area.

Village in the Barma District was the most seriously affected by the earthquake. The 18 -year -old Hazlat Ali said: "Our house has been destroyed, we have no tents ... There are many children here. . Our food and clothes ... everything is under the rubble. "

This disaster was a major test for the Taliban government.

As early as the earthquake, Afghanistan faced a serious food and economic crisis, people's livelihood, economic and other issues needed to be resolved. About 23 million people were "extremely hungry". Some local children could only wear single clothes to spend winter.

At present, the United Nations and several other countries have provided assistance to the disaster areas. In addition, more assistance will arrive in the next few days.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, after the earthquake, the Chinese government decided to provide Afghanistan's emergency humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, including tents, towel quilts, folding beds and other supplies. In the next step, China will closely coordinate with the temporary government of Afghanistan to ensure that the disaster relief supplies are sent to the victims as soon as possible to help the people of the Afghanistan through the current difficulty.

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan last summer, the United States and other aspects have taken measures to freeze funds in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban government from obtaining funds. It is reported that about 7 billion US dollars of about $ 9 billion in Afghan Central Bank of Afghanistan has US banks.

In February this year, Biden announced that Afghanistan was in the United States, but left $ 3.5 billion in the United States for compensation for the family members of the victims of the "September 11" incident. The remaining 3.5 billion US dollars can be used for humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, but when will this money be issued and is still far away.

In this regard, the Taliban government once again called for the cancellation of sanctions and lifted the frozen frozen assets.

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