The number of pregnant and breastfeeding adolescent girls and women suffering from acute malnutrition has soared from 5.5 million to 6.9 million – or 25 per cent – since 2020 in 12 countries hardest hit by the global…
A total of 450 malnourished children were hospitalized for treatment in western Farah province during the past one month, health officials said on Wednesday. Doctor Salahuddin, a health worker in Farah provincial hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News: “A…
The Public Health Directorate of northeastern Badakhshan province has registered 300 severe malnutrition cases during the last four months, when ten malnourished children died, officials said Thursday. Doctor Ghulam Rabbani Mushtaq, a pediatrician at the Badakhshan provincial hospital,…
Bakht Bibi, a resident of southern Ghazni province, who has given birth to 12 children, says her elder son and daughter were killed in an airstrike two years ago while five of her children now suffering from…
Families of malnourished children call on donor agencies and the government to save their children’s lives while the Ministry of Public Health has announced starting a program to deal with malnutrition in the country. Recently the United Nations…
The Ministry of Public Health has announced that it is working to control child malnutrition in the country. A day earlier, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) tweeted as the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan deepens, eight cases of…
Officials of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Tuesday said 2.2 million children in the country suffered from moderate to severe malnutrition and one million from acute malnutrition. On the other hand, 928 cases of children’s malnutrition…
Nearly 1950 malnourished children were brought to the children ward of Mirwais hospital in southern Kandahar province this solar year and 75 of them died, health officials said on Sunday. They said the number of malnourished children was…
Pajhwok Afghan News findings show 104 children and lactating mothers have died of severe malnutrition in the past two years in northeastern Badakhshan province. Embezzlement in the RUTF, ready-to-use therapeutic food to counter malnutrition, has been a big…
About 3.2 million Afghan children under 5 may suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the current year, warns the World Health Organization (WHO). With health workers unpaid for eight months, the WHO also voiced its concern…
