Her mother, Balqisa, had brought the child to Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, the night before."Her body was so hot," she said, stroking her daughter's emaciated leg.
Three-quarters of Afghanistan's population has plunged into acute poverty, with 4.7 million Afghans likely to suffer severe malnutrition this year, according to the United Nations. Last month, the organisation made its biggest appeal ever for a single country, asking international donors to give more than $5 billion to fend off a humanitarian disaster.
Before the US-backed Afghan government disintegrated in August as the Taliban overran the country, the health system relied on international aid to survive. But much of that funding has been frozen to comply with sanctions imposed on the Taliban. Although the drastic decline in war-related casualties has relieved the burden of such patients on many hospitals, the suspension of operations by private facilities and the ability to safely travel Afghanistan's roads has left other hospitals overrun with people.
"I've never seen it like this," said Sadiq, who has worked at the hospital for more than three years."And just imagine this same situation in every hospital in Afghanistan." "When I try to talk to people about COVID-19, they say we have no food, no water, no electricity - why should we care about this virus?" said Dr Tariq Ahmad Akbari, the hospital's medical director.
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