Aziza gets a medical check-up and health education at a WHO-supported mobile clinic in a camp for internally displaced persons in Kabul

Latest updates

• Health facilities in many provinces remain closed due to insecurity and increasing violent conflict.
• Between January and March, 89 000 people have been displaced due to conflict — 27 000 people were displaced during March (OCHA).
• WHO continued to build national capacity in mass casualty management and provided life-saving medicines and medical supplies to health facilities.
• 10 incidents against health workers and facilities occurred in the first quarter of 2016 — a 40% increase from 2015 (OCHA).

Emergency and Humanitarian Action, March 2016 [pdf 577kb]

WHO distributed medicines and medical supplies to the provinces for contingency flood preparedness and response