KABUL (BNA) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern about the growing malnutrition of children in Afghanistan.
The agency says that as the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan escalates, child malnutrition is on the rise in Afghanistan.
According to statistics, up to eight cases of severe malnutrition in children are registered daily in the Andra gandi Child’s Health Hospital in Kabul alone.
However, accurate statistics on malnutrition are not available across Afghanistan, but UNICEF is concerned about the rising incidence in the country, citing figures from the Child Health Hospital in Kabul.
The bureau today stressed the importance of increasing global aid to fight the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) quoted Hasiba, an official at Kabul’s Andra gandi Child’s Health Hospital, saying that she and other health workers were continuing their efforts to treat the children at this dire time.
It also expressed concern about the lack of medicine to treat malnourished patients in Afghanistan.
With the reduction of global aid, in freeze of Afghanistan’s assets by the United States, as well as the economic recession in the country, the level of extreme poverty and hunger increased to 70% in the country, leading to diseases such as malnutrition.
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