GENEVA, July 9 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is
concerned about worsening access to provide life-saving
medicines and supplies in Afghanistan and attacks on health care
facilities, as Afghan forces fight Taliban insurgents, a WHO
official said on Friday.
Rick Brennan, WHO regional emergencies director for its
Eastern Mediterranean regional office, said that aid supplies
would arrive next week including 3.5 million COVID-19 vaccine
doses and oxygen concentrators.
"It is a terribly concerning situation and it's very fluid
right now," Brennan, speaking from Cairo, told a U.N. briefing
in Geneva. "We are concerned about our lack of access to be able
to provide essential medicines and supplies and we are concerned
about attacks on health care."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge;)