Afghanistan: Solar Power Provides a Lifeline to Afghanistan's Hospitals

Dec 6, 2020 | World Bank
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Since it recorded its first COVID-19 case in February 2020—and incidentally, the first case in Afghanistan—the Herat province has logged the country's second-highest number of confirmed cases, after Kabul. The pandemic has overstretched Afghanistan's healthcare. In Herat, medical facilities have done their best to cope with the influx of patients. But power outages have made it challenging to treat COVID-19 patients, who require electrical ventilators and other respiratory devices to breathe and stay alive.