KUNDUZ: 2022 is just started 2 months back and nearly dozens of children have died due to malnutrition in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, reported by the sources of Public Health Department on February 14 Monday.
According to’ Hamayoon Safi‘, the head of the Nutrition Department at the Kunduz Civil Hospital, they had admitted nearly 438 children suffering from lack of malnutrition in a year.
Lat time, the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of Afghanistan warned the country that one million children could die if they could not get acute malnutrition, and some urgent actions need to be taken in order to save their lives.
“Without necessary action, 1 million children could die from extreme acute malnutrition. @UNICEFAfg is providing high-energy peanut paste to children to support their recovery,” UNICEF Afghanistan tweeted.
As per the UNICEF Tweet:
“Having just rescued from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria is back in the hospital, this time mourning from edema and erosion. Her mother was present continously by her bedside for the past 15 days, anxiously waiting for Soria to recover.
Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria is back in hospital, this time suffering from edema and wasting. Her mother has been by her bedside for the past 2 weeks anxiously waiting for Soria to recover. pic.twitter.com/CyjAMqKDxP
— UNICEF Afghanistan (@UNICEFAfg) February 9, 2022
However, after rising the number of cases of malnutrition among children, the Ministry of Public Health said no malnutrition care centres are active in Afghanistan.
As per the Ministry of Public Health reports, there are around 4.4 million children who are suffering from malnutrition in Afghanistan.
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has declined drastically since the Taliban took control of Kabul last year in mid-August.
A combination of a break of foreign help, the freezing of Afghan government support, and international boycotts on the Taliban have dropped the country, already suffering from high poverty levels, into a full-blown economic crisis.