HIGHLIGHTS
Pre-Hospital Services in Herat Province – Credit WHO As of 30 June, 223,190 confirmed cases and 7,926 deaths of COVID-19 were reported. The recovery rate was 96.5% with 3.5% case fatality rate.
The leading causes of morbidity among all age groups were Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) and Acute Diarrheal Disease (ADD) across the country.
In total, WHO has provided 1,578 medical kits which will benefit 1.8 M people in the next three months.
UNICEF scaled up the establishment of oral rehydration points by ten times in two months reaching 2,357 (from 232) and tripled the cholera treatment centers to 154 (from 52) in response to a surge in cases of acute watery diarrhea.
International Rescue Committee is supporting 33 Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNTs) and 9 fixed centers for provision of primary health care services in white areas of Kabul, Laghman, Nangarhar, Logar, Paktia, Khost, Badghis, Herat and Bamyan provinces.
OCCD runs 23 MHNTs, 60 primary health facilities, and two FATPs in central, northeastern, southern, and western regions.
WORLD deployed 35 health facilities (15 BHCs, 20 SHCs) in four target provinces (Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan) of the Eastern Region. The health facilities are fully functional and delivering emergency life-saving basic health services to the communities.