‘It’s like hell in here’: The struggle to save Afghanistan's starving babies

Doctors in Afghanistan's crisis-hit hospitals, many of whom are now working without pay, spoke to the BBC about the country's deepening humanitarian crisis.The young woman was crying, begging the doctor to kill her and her baby. Dr Nuri, an obstetrician in central Afghanistan, was about to deliver the baby by Caesarean section when the mother broke down.

Across the country, hospitals treating the starving are on the brink of collapse, with nearly 2,300 health facilities already closed. Doctors in remote areas have reported being unable to provide basic medicines - even something as simple as paracetamol for the gravely ill who have walked 12 hours to seek treatment.

For those that do make it in time, there are few resources with which to help them - the hospital is suffering serious shortages of food and medicine, and struggles to even keep the patients warm. There is no fuel for central heating, so Dr Siddiqi now asks staff to cut and collect dried tree branches every day to feed a wood burner. "When we finish the branches we're worried about the next month and what to do next.

Despite being forced to work under such challenging circumstances, most healthcare staff are not even paid at the moment.Dr Rahmani, the director of a hospital in Herat province which specialised in treating Covid patients, shared with the BBC a letter from the Taliban-led health ministry, dated 30 October, which asked staff to keep working without pay until funding was secured.

But this hospital too is on the brink of closing in the face of dwindling staff, and if it does shut, Dr Nowruz worries what will become of his patients in the brutal winter ahead.

Taliban wanted control and they’ve got it so leave them to it. Surely it’s racist and imperialistic to intervene in another country’s issues.

These people live by the sword and die by the sword, the Taliban hate us, fuck em.

isn't the Taliban doing anything ?

This breaks my heart

Blame the foreign Taliban rulers.

AiUo9Jn2Ct5faFR انا عارف ان الصحيفة دي ومثيلاتها مش تمام بس محتاج اتأكد من صحة الخبر

Thanks, Joe.

💛 Prayer for all the hungry people in Afghanistan 🙏

Blame Biden.

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