Children starving in Kandahar area

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Nor is it about a scarcity of food. "They have food, but don't know how to
utilize it. We've found mothers breastfeeding until their child is two years
old and that's not sufficient."

We move around the ward, each room with a handful of soiled beds and floors
puddled with urine. The Pakistan-trained pediatrician is curiously detached
as he examines babies clinically near death.

"This one weighs four kilograms and should be nine." He pauses to gently
prod the screaming infant's grotesquely distended stomach. "It doesn't look
good."

He puts infants on a supplement-laced, antibiotics-enhanced milk feeding
program when they arrive, to treat what are invariably multiple health
problems.

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Janice Reynolds

 

 


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