Kabul: Children are dying starvation in afghanistanLocal and international sources said on Saturday, after warnings that a million young people there could face life-threatening malnutrition by the end of the year.
The province’s director of public health, Mullah Mohamed Ahmadi, told AFP that in Ghor, one of the affected provinces, at least 17 children who reached the hospital had died of malnutrition in the past six months.
About 300 have been treated for the effects of hunger.
Hundreds of children at risk starvation He said that in the central parts of the country.
a spokesperson for United Nations The Children’s Agency in Afghanistan said it could not confirm the number of ghastly deaths but feared “too many children are paying the ultimate price”.
UNICEF’s Salam al-Janabi said the agency’s surveillance network had been disrupted and was relying on anecdotal reports, but “we know very painfully that this is something we are on the verge of, or in the midst of it.” are in”.
Since Taliban Since coming to power in mid-August, Afghanistan has already plunged into a serious humanitarian crisis.
The effects of drought, rising food prices and job losses have halted all but halted international aid and financing.
The United Nations has warned that one million children under the age of five in Afghanistan will need treatment for life-threatening “severe severe malnutrition” by the end of the year, while another 3.3 million children will suffer from it. acute malnutrition.
The province’s director of public health, Mullah Mohamed Ahmadi, told AFP that in Ghor, one of the affected provinces, at least 17 children who reached the hospital had died of malnutrition in the past six months.
About 300 have been treated for the effects of hunger.
Hundreds of children at risk starvation He said that in the central parts of the country.
a spokesperson for United Nations The Children’s Agency in Afghanistan said it could not confirm the number of ghastly deaths but feared “too many children are paying the ultimate price”.
UNICEF’s Salam al-Janabi said the agency’s surveillance network had been disrupted and was relying on anecdotal reports, but “we know very painfully that this is something we are on the verge of, or in the midst of it.” are in”.
Since Taliban Since coming to power in mid-August, Afghanistan has already plunged into a serious humanitarian crisis.
The effects of drought, rising food prices and job losses have halted all but halted international aid and financing.
The United Nations has warned that one million children under the age of five in Afghanistan will need treatment for life-threatening “severe severe malnutrition” by the end of the year, while another 3.3 million children will suffer from it. acute malnutrition.
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