Posted on 08/23/2021 4:26:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that more than 500 tonnes of medical supplies due for delivery in Afghanistan are stuck outside of the country due to chaos at Kabul airport.
Aid officials say the supplies, including surgical equipment and malnutrition kits, are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent violence.
Thousands of people have left the country in recent days, but commercial flights have ceased.
"While the eyes of the world now are on the people being evacuated and the planes leaving, we need to get supplies in to help those who are left behind," WHO spokeswoman Inas Hamam said in a statement to Reuters.
The UN health organisation wants empty planes to divert to Dubai to pick up supplies on their way to pick up refugees.
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That’s a bargaining chip.
Let us get people out, and afterwards, we’ll send in supplies.
500 tons?????????? That’s a lot of band aids.
500 tons of stuff for the Tollybun? Say what? Didn’t they get enough stuff? Let them trade MRAPS for catheters.
Oh now besides leaving the terrorists Billion$ of Dollar$ of US ARMS we now want to give them medical supplies????
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