Posted on 02/02/2022 12:16:05 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been a surge in malnutrition, producing a dramatic rise in pneumonia in children.
One doctor at a hospital in the north of the country said he had never seen so many cases of child pneumonia and severe malnutrition. Children have to lie three or even four to a bed, he told Save the Children. More than 130 children had died in or on their way to the hospital in December, he said. The majority were fighting for breath from pneumonia, and 40 were severely malnourished.
“The situation here now is absolutely desperate for the entire population, but especially for young children,” said Fiona McSheehy, Save the Children’s Acting Country Director, speaking with FRANCE 24 from Kabul. “The rising number of cases of pneumonia is frightening and all the more so because it is directly linked to high levels malnutrition.”
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That’s the Taliwackers’ problemo now.
Our thanks for saving children is they grow up to hate us and attack us.
Did the Afghans get their free mRNA shots? Sure sounds like they did.
Don’t care.
Won’t care.
Can’t make me care.
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Biden’s Fault
Impossible. Covid cured pneumonia and the flu.
Oh, and natural causes for the elderly.
Sounds like a classic
TaliBiden outcome.
The USA were subsidizing that hell hole to the tune of a $1 trillion a year. They have reverted back to what they always were, a backwater Muslim $hithole.
Let Saudi Arabia subsidize them now.
I don’t trust what these institutions say about the number of COVID-19 cases here; I sure as heck don’t trust their numbers on anything in Afghanistan. It could be higher, it could be a complete fabrication. People sick in country on other side of the world. What can we learn from it that we don’t already know? Looks like nothing.
FJB
Poor babies. One feels so helpless. Trapped into such a terrible life, born into it.
Another Biden Disaster
They wanted to "Party like it's 632 AD." Well break out them party hats!
Imagine if money given to zikat (Muslim version of tithing) went less to fund jihad and more to help their own folks.
Boo-hoo.
My eyes are dry.
I don’t care… it’s not the USA l’s problem…
I Afghanis are unhappy… grab a gun and stand opposed
The Taliban wanted us out, so now they got their wish. They need to grow up and govern responsibly for a change. Just emulate what we did when we were there.
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