KABUL is working with partners to provide life-saving aid to people affected by the flooding, according to a statement on Wednesday.
This critical assistance will provide emergency shelter, hygiene kits, food, and high energy biscuits that serve as temporary meal replacements, the statement said.
The United States is the largest humanitarian assistance donor in Afghanistan, providing over $232 million in FY 2018.
This funding includes water, improved sanitation, shelter, relief supplies, food, repatriation and reintegration, livelihoods opportunities, and health services for returnees and people displaced by natural disasters, drought, and conflict.
At least 19 persons, including women and children have been killed and 42 others injured as result of flash floods in southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
Kandahar Civil Health Hospital Department head Dr. Abdul Qauyyom Pukhla told Pajhwok Afghan News that 12 people were killed and 35 others including women and children injured due to recent heavy rainfall which resulted in flood in the province.
He has confirmed receiving some injured folks, including women and children from Arghandab, Daman, Spin Boldak, and Miawand districts at Mirwais Hospital and some of them were discharged after their treatment.
Six teams equipped with medicines and ambulances have been dispatched to the effected places, he added.
In Helmand, the heavy rainfall triggered flood which wreaked havoc and inflicted financial and other losses to the residents.
Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, said hundreds of houses and thousands acres of land have been destroyed in the recent floods in the province.
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