Kyrgyzstan Sends Medical Aid To Pamir Region of Afghanistan

Kyrgyz media outlets reported that the country has dispatched a two-tonne humanitarian aid shipment, including medicine, to both Little and Great Pamir region of Afghanistan.

Sadyr Japarov, the president of Kyrgyzstan, ordered the delivery of humanitarian aid to residents of Pamir region.

Kyrgyz News Agency 24 reported that a number of medical workers had also been dispatched to the area. They examined and provided assistance to 600 local residents.

According to the report, Kyrgyz veterinary specialists vaccinated hundreds of animals, including 700 cows in Pamir, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

In addition, Kyrgyzstan held a training course for the prevention of various diseases in the Pamir region.

These measures were taken after the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry last year had said that Kyrgyz people residing in the Pamir region of Afghanistan were facing dire living conditions and falling ill to an unidentified virus.

At the same time, Radio-Television Afghanistan, controlled by the Taliban, reported that in two weeks, Pamir residents were infected with an unknown disease and 21 people had died.

One of the residents of the Great Pamir region said that they have no facilities and that the residents have to walk for three or four days to reach a medical center.

The Pamir region, which is divided into two parts, the Little Pamir and Great Pamir, is located in Wakhan, Badakhshan province, in the northeast of Afghanistan.

After the Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan’s concern regarding the well-being of Kyrgyz residents in Afghanistan increased.