Afghan doctors work with no pay, dwindling medicines

Doctors and health professionals in Kabul have been reduced to working for little or no pay and hospitals are facing catastrophic supply shortages a month on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. With his patients facing death from lack of medicines, a doctor begged the international community not to forget about Afghanistan. People are also worried that they may have lost their savings and queue daily in front of banks in vain attempts to withdraw their own money. In the face of new problems, the Taliban is keen to point out the flaws of the previous regime, around the lavish mansion of the former vice-president and notorious warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. The building is now occupied by Taliban fighters but is seen as emblematic of the corruption and decadence of the former government, while ordinary people lived in poverty.