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Nearly a dozen children die of malnutrition in Kunduz

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KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Nearly a dozen children have died of malnutrition this year in northern Kunduz province, says the Public Health Department.

Hamayoon Safi, head of the nutrition department at the Kunduz Civil Hospital, said they had admitted 438 malnourished children this year.

He told Pajhwok Afghan News in an inclusive interview that about 355 of the children had recovered, while 72 were still under treatment, Eleven of them had died, he revealed.

“We have 10 beds for malnourished children at this hospital, but currently each bed is occupied by three children,” the doctor added.

Mursal, a resident of Khanabad . . .

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