Kanul: Hundreds of doctors including women from Sisangan Province and Nuristan gathered at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kabul and asked the World Bank to pay their delayed salaries for the past 14 months.
Khaama Press reported that protesters complained that not only their salaries had been paid but clinics in the provinces of each facing medical shortages.
They also accused the World Bank Afghan contractor – Asad Fayaz – who had left the country and had taken money from the World Bank but had not been paid to them, according to publication.
Fayaz has a two-year health contract in the provinces and provides health services, drugs, and doctor’s salaries, they said.
“Asad Fayaz has escaped from Afghanistan and stole our money.
He led a corrupt company and it caused an increase in the deaths of children and mothers in Sisangan Province and Nuristan,” Khaama Press reported quotes protesters.
In a statement, doctors said that since the Afghan Islamic Emirates did not have a relationship with the World Bank and could not ask for money, ask the bank to directly pay their money through the Ministry of Health Afghanistan or other NGOs.
Meanwhile, doctors warn the continuation of protests if their salary is not paid.
Since the takeover of the Taliban state, the bank has been closed leaving millions of people from cash.
Entrepreneurs have not paid their staff and even those who have money in their accounts cannot attract it.
Afghan’s situation worsened when the Taliban controlled the country on August 15 after the fall of the government.