New York — The UN has paid nearly $8m in salaries to about 23,500 health workers across Afghanistan over the past month, bypassing the Taliban-run health ministry in a test case to inject much-needed liquidity into a dire Afghan economy.
“Someone had to step in. We were confronted not just with a health system that was collapsing, but also a financial system that was collapsing,” the UNDP’s regional director for Asia and the Pacific, Kanni Wignaraja, said. Wignaraja said UNDP wired some of the money to the Afghanistan International Bank and then used a large money service provider, which UNDP declined to identify for security reasons, to distribute the rest.
“Without this, you literally would have all the Afghan doctors, nurses, technicians, heading across borders,” she said. Wignaraja said the payment of health workers’ salaries over the past month had helped spark the reopening of some banks.
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