Afghanistan Taliban
Kabul's Afghan-Japan Hospital medical staff start protesting as they remain unpaid for months
Kabul: The Afghan-Japan Hospital, the only active center treating COVID-19 patients in Kabul, might soon shut down if medical staff do not receive their five months' worth of unpaid wages within the week, media reports said.
The staff of the 100-bed communicable disease hospital have started protesting since Tuesday.
The medical staff, who are on strike, said the health facility faces a lack of medicine and medical equipment, and the government has not paid their salaries for the past five months.
“It has been five months that medical staff have not received salaries, in addition, the hospital lacks medical equipment like medicine and oxygen,” Sabauddin, a doctor, told Tolo News.
Another doctor at the Afghan-Japan hospital, Majid, told the media outlet: “How can we serve our patients if there is no salary. The hospital will be shut down, our voices are not heard and answered.”
The Taliban forces are currently ruling Afghanistan since it seized power in mid-August.
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