{"id":25248,"date":"2026-11-02T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/un-warns-afghanistan-health-crisis-funding-shortfall\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:45:16","slug":"un-warns-afghanistan-health-crisis-funding-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/un-warns-afghanistan-health-crisis-funding-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns Afghanistan\u2019s Health Services at Crisis Point Due to Funding Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has issued a warning about a severe crisis in Afghanistan\u2019s health sector. The office stated that only 44 percent of the required $191 million budget to sustain vital health services has been secured. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday, November 1, along with a video depicting the situation in a hospital in Kasham district, Badakhshan province, OCHA emphasized that emergency health services cannot be delayed until new funding is received. <\/p>\n<p>The video highlights the difficult conditions and intense pressure on local health centers, illustrating the daily challenges faced by patients and health workers alike. <\/p>\n<p>UN officials have cautioned that the continuation of inadequate financial support from the international community is limiting access to essential treatments and increasing the risk of a worsening humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN warns that Afghanistan\u2019s health services face a crisis due to only 44% of $191M funding secured, risking a worsening humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}