WHO supports health services in a Kabul Pul-e-Company IDP camp through a mobile clinicKey updates
- Civilian casualties and major attacks are increasing in many parts of Afghanistan; a devastating attack on the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital in central Kabul on 8 March claimed dozens of lives.
- Three more health facilities were forced to close in the southern region due to conflict in March; around 1700 families were displaced.
- Flash floods in Herat province killed four people and affected 352 families. A further 795 families were internally displaced in western provinces due to conflict.
- The number of returnees and refugees from Pakistan and Islamic Republic of Iran reached 56 000 by the end on February 2017: 80% of them were undocumented returnees from Islamic Republic of Iran.
- More than 115 disease outbreaks were reported in the first quarter of 2017, of which 63% were measles and 10% Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.
