India has supplied three tonnes of essential life-saving medicines to Afghanistan in the fourth batch of medical assistance and will provide further humanitarian help to the people there in form of medicines and foodgrains in the coming weeks, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday.

"As part of our ongoing humanitarian assistance, India supplied the fourth batch of medical assistance consisting of 3 tonnes of essential life-saving medicines to Afghanistan. The same was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital, Kabul," India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement on Saturday.

The Ministry also informed that in the coming weeks India would be supplying more batches of humanitarian assistance consisting of medicines and foodgrains for the people of Afghanistan.

Prior to this, India has supplied three shipments of medical assistance, consisting of 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and essential life-saving medicines to Afghanistan that were handed over to the WHO and Kabul's India Gandhi Children Hospital.