Afghan Children's Hospital under US sanctions: difficult

Ingla Gandhi Children's Hospital, one of the best public children's hospitals in Afghanistan, is full of children who come to see a doctor every day in the emergency room. When they are busy, even 2 to 3 children are squeezed on a bed for treatment.

The total number of patients designed by the hospital is 300, but more than 500 patients are treated, and each ward is full of children. What's even worse is that this number is increasing every day. The attending doctor said that the hospital was overcrowded, and medical supplies were extremely short.

Muhammad Ikbar, the attending doctor of the Children's Hospital of Bigra Gandhi: For example, we need a ventilator, but we do not, but this demand exists. There is no cardiopulmonary resuscitation instrument in our intensive care unit, and there are no ventilator. These are necessary for the intensive care unit.

The 40 beds in the nutritional ward are already full, and children here have serious malnutrition.

Mohammed Ashlav, a doctor in the Ira -Gandhi Children's Hospital: In fact, similar tragedies and poverty are increasing in Afghanistan. The higher the poverty rate, the more cases of malnutrition. I call on the international community and rescue organizations to help these poor people, especially these malnourished children.

The United Nations Children's Foundation is expected to have severe malnutrition diseases under the age of 1.5 million in 2022, and the number of children under the age of 5 under severe acute malnutrition for medical institutions has soared from 18,000 in March 2021 to 3rd to 3rd in 2022. 28,000 in the month.

Melalei Gorkwin, an UNICEF official in Afghanistan: In the past year, there is no doubt that the number of children with severe malnutrition has doubled, and I did not see these numbers improved. Instead, they are getting worse and worse.

Since the withdrawal of Afghanistan last year, the United States not only frozen the Afghan Central Bank's more than $ 7 billion assets, but also greatly reduced various economic assistance, which caused Afghanistan's economic conditions and humanitarian crisis to deteriorate. The suffering.

Muhammad Hasie Waldap, Dean of the Evilla Gandhic Children's Hospital: We call on the international community to increase our assistance to us and continue. They (the United States) should thaw our funds, which is our hope and what we urgently need.

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