World Health Organization: 48% of emigrants expelled from Pakistan are women
The World Health Organization announced that most of the people who returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan are women and children. |
– International news – Tasnim News Agency, the World Health Organization in its second report on the situation of refugees deported from Pakistan announced that women accounted for 48 percent of the deportees and children under 5 years of age. The other 24% are these refugees. According to this report, 60% of Afghan refugees expelled from Pakistan are children and adolescents aged 17 and younger. The World Health Organization added As of November 11, a total of 327,400 refugees from Afghanistan have entered this country through Torkham and Spinboldek border crossings. According to this report, most of the returnees have entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, respectively from Nangarhar, Kandahar. , Kunar, Kunduz and Laghman.
The report also adds that 90 percent of the returnees want to return to their provinces of origin.
The World Health Organization, stating that the coming of a harsh winter, will increase the vulnerability of Afghan refugees. will intensify, he added, overcrowding, poor hygiene and inadequate access to food and water increase the risk of contracting infectious diseases.
Publisher | Tasnim News |