Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA), has said that the current level of assistance to Afghanistan is like “a drop in the ocean.”
Fletcher told CNN from Kabul that $3 billion was needed to meet the needs in Afghanistan.
He stressed that the reduction in aid had had a negative impact on the situation in Afghanistan.
Fletcher recalled that some pregnant women have lost their babies on bumpy roads to hospitals.
“These cutbacks are already hitting the humanitarian effort massively and there is worse to come,” he said.
The United Nations says 23 million people in Afghanistan are in need of humanitarian aid and that it has received only 15 percent of the funding it needs.
Fletcher also visited Kandahar during his trip to Afghanistan. He said there were four to five people in one bed in the provincial hospital and the hospital was facing a shortage of medicines.
