RASC: UNICEF has announced that it has provided essential health services to more than 20 million people in the first half of 2023.
This organization said that among these 20 million people, 50% of them are children, for whom health and nutrition services have been provided.
The six-monthly report of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, on the “humanitarian situation in Afghanistan” was published today, Wednesday, August 2.
UNICEF has stated that from January to June of this year, it has examined nearly eight million children in terms of acute malnutrition.
According to this report, these children have been examined in fixed and mobile UNICEF health centers.
UNICEF said in its report that among these children, almost 350,000 of them, 56% of whom were girls, were hospitalized due to “severe injuries”.
This institution added that in the first half of 2023, compared to the same time last year, they treated 31% more children with severe lesions.
According to UNICEF’s six-monthly report, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan has also increased from 28.3 million people in January this year to 29.2 million people in May.
This institution has also said that during this period, it has provided educational services to more than 633 thousand children, 60% of whom were girls, in 31 provinces of Afghanistan through the “Community Oriented” educational program.
Earlier, UNICEF said that 1.45 billion dollars of funding is urgently needed to address the needs of 19 million people in Afghanistan, including 10.3 million children.
