Emergency and Humanitarian Action, December 2017

December 2017 update

• Conflict and displacement continued to affect delivery of health services across the country in December 2017.

• In Nangarhar, the Khogiani IDPs continued to burden health services in surrounding districts.

• 8 health facilities in 4 districts in the west region were closed by Taliban and 3 health facilities were closed in Kandahar. 

• 1414 families were displaced in the northeastern region. 

• A health centre in Shawalikot was burnt and a nurse and 2 vaccinators arrested. Two of the staff were released, but the facility remains closed.

• In Helmand, a doctor and security guard of a health facility were arrested, but later released.

• Two new polio cases were confirmed in Kandahar province, bringing the total number of polio cases in 2017 to 13.

• In 2017, a total of 2640 families (12 634 individuals) of documented returnees returned to Afghanistan through Spinboldak gate from Pakistan: a decrease of 67% compared to 2016.