Temperatures have already began to drop into single figures.
With about two-thirds of the affected areas assessed, greater than 21,500 houses are confirmed destroyed and an additional 17,000 severely broken, based on the UN humanitarian affairs coordination workplace (OCHA). Over 154,000 individuals have been impacted.
Crucial psychosocial assist
That quantity contains about 7,500 pregnant girls, a lot of whom misplaced relations.
The deaths of their family members has taken a devastating toll, the UN Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) stated.
The company has deployed psychosocial counsellors to assist them address overwhelming loss.
“They want somebody to take heed to them and assist them address their trauma,” stated counsellor Faiza Zarie, including that the supply of psychosocial assist is crucial.
Girls additionally face different challenges – heightened dangers of preventable maternal loss of life, gender-based violence and starvation.
UNFPA is working to handle reproductive well being wants. It issued a funding appeal for $11.6 million to proceed delivering life-saving sexual and reproductive well being provides and companies.
Well being amenities, employees affected
Entry to medical care has additionally been severely affected, with at the least 40 amenities reported broken, a area that was already largely disadvantaged of important well being companies earlier than the catastrophe.
The World Well being Group (WHO) warns that companies for about 580,000 individuals have been severely disrupted.
“Well being employees are additionally affected by the catastrophe – both from lack of relations or from concern of collapsing well being amenities, which makes it even more durable for them to supply the well being care their communities want,” Alaa AbouZeid, WHO workforce chief emergencies in Afghanistan, advised reporters in Geneva, from Kabul.
“The well being penalties are staggering,” she added
The UN company has been one of many first responders on the bottom, supporting hospitals with medicines and provides and organizing cell well being and diet groups.
Sustaining well being companies would require further assets, and WHO and companions have launched an appeal for $7.9 million to supply assist for the subsequent six months.