UN releases funds to save Afghanistan health system from collapse

"Allowing Afghanistan's healthcare delivery system to fall apart would be disastrous," Martin Griffiths said

The United Nations aid chief said Wednesday he had released $45 million in emergency funds to help prevent Afghanistan's battered healthcare system from collapsing, news agency AFP reported.

Martin Griffiths, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coord­inator, warned in a statement that “medicines, medical supplies and fuel are running out in Afghanistan.”

“Cold chains are compromised. Essential health-care workers are not being paid,” he said. In a bid to avert catastrophe, Griffiths said he was releasing funds from the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund to boost life-saving support in Afghanistan, AFP said.

“Allowing Afghanistan's healthcare delivery system to fall apart