KABUL (Pajhwok): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)has pledged continued presence in Afghanistan, saying it will provide essential humanitarian services to the needy people.
The committee plans to provide humanitarian services in the country for the next two years, says Eloi Fillion, the ICRC delegation head in Afghanistan.
Over the next two years, she added, the organisation would deliver health care, nutrition, physical rehabilitation and other forms of assistance.
Fillion promised ICRC would continue to support Afghan hospitals, especially in areas of emergency care and orthopedics.
However, the responsibility for the hospitals' financial transitions to the caretaker government with effect from Thursday (today).
It will hand over the responsibility of financing 25 hospitals to the Ministry of Public Health, which itself will pay salaries of health workers.
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