{"id":8620,"date":"2022-02-24T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:46:11","slug":"3-2-million-children-to-suffer-from-acute-malnutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/3-2-million-children-to-suffer-from-acute-malnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"3.2 million children to suffer from acute malnutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The UN Children Fund has said in a fresh report that a<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">cross Afghanistan, around 3.2 million children <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">under five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\">&#8220;UNICEF <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">is responding by increasing the number of nutrition counsellors, doubling the mobile health <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#nutrition<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> teams, &amp; bringing in more therapeutic food&#8221;, it tweeted.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\">&#8220;8-month-old Ibrahim is being hospitalized at Mirwais Regional Hospital for treatment of severe acute malnutrition. His mother, Tahira, says, \u201cI only eat bread with water or tea. How can I breastfeed my baby if we cannot afford healthy food?&#8221; UNICEF tweeted.<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, UNIE warned that as the humanitarian crisis deepens in Afghanistan, the Indira Gandhi Children\u2019s Hospital in Kabul receives up to 8 cases each day of children suffering complications associated with severe acute malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my responsibility to help my people in their time of need,\u201d said Head Nurse, Hasiba. Her &amp; many health workers across Afghanistan selflessly buy medicines, using their own money, in an effort to help desperate parents\u201d, tweeted thee UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF launched its largest ever single-country\u00a0appeal last year to urgently respond to the humanitarian needs of over 24 million people in Afghanistan, half of whom are children.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF\u2019s appeal for US$2 billion is to help to avert the imminent collapse of health, nutrition, WASH, education and other vital social services for children and families.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The UN Children Fund has said in a fresh report that across Afghanistan, around 3.2 million children under five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,200,24,5,8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-women","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":479,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}