Malnutrition up by 17pc in Kandahar: Official

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Seventeen percent children in southern Kandahar province are suffering from malnutrition and this percentage was rising, an official said on Friday.

Public Health Director Dr. Jamaluddin Azeemi said this during WFP food distribution ceremony to affected children.

Flour, cooking oil, lentil and special food for malnutrition children distributed 79 children’s families during the event.

Azami said children provided with food items earlier registered in the Mirwais Zonal Hospital and they were provided with treatment.

“According to a survey the level of malnutrition has surged to 17 percent in the province, in the past it stood at 13 percent,” he said.

Enayatullah, the resident of Kandahar City, said his daughter suffered from malnutrition due to deteriorated economic situation and he hospitalized her in the Mirwais Zonal Hospital.

Shah Mohammad, another resident of Kandahar City, said earlier, he hospitalized his son in the hospital for treatment and today he was provided with assistance.

He said from the past few weeks he was unemployed and there was no work opportunity for him therefore his family suffered from the shortage of food.

“I don’t have work and the economic ability to buy food and milk for my children,” he said.

Surge in the number of malnutrition children in Kandahar comes at time when people in other provinces of the country also suffering from poverty and unemployment.

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