The EU sends 36 tons of emergency aid to assist the victims of the earthquake in Afghanistan

BRUSSELS, July 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The European Union has sent this Thursday 36 tons of emergency aid through the humanitarian airlift to attend to the victims of the earthquake in Afghanistan, which left a thousand dead on June 22.

The aid consists of medical equipment, medicines and emergency items, as well as means to make drinking water and sanitary supplies. This humanitarian shipment will enable UNICEF, the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières to continue providing vital aid and health care services to Afghans in need.

This is the 20th airlift to Kabul to ensure the supply of medicine and medical equipment to Afghanistan. “The country has been hit by simultaneous crises, from widespread hunger that affected half the population to the powerful earthquake that shook the country just a few days ago. The European Union is therefore stepping up assistance right now.” critical”, defended the Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic.

The EU has earmarked €1 million in emergency funds to assist people hit by the earthquake, and in total the bloc has earmarked €115 million in humanitarian funds.

The earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the open Richter scale had its epicenter about 44 kilometers from the city of Jost and left more than a thousand dead and 1,500 injured in the country.