Reference :
V-F-CR-F-03547-N
Date :
24/11/2022
Title :
Afghanistan : la pneumonie infantile et la malnutrition augmentent alors que les familles sont confrontées à un choix impossible : manger ou se chauffer = Afghanistan : child pneumonia, malnutrition spikes as families face impossible choice : eat or heat
Duration :
00:08:06
Editor :
SAMIMI, Mohammad Masoud
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Production company :
ICRC
ICRC producer :
SAMIMI, Mohammad Masoud
Description :
As winter sets in across Afghanistan and the economic crisis is worsening, more than half the population (24 million people) need humanitarian assistance and half (20 million people) are acutely food insecure.
Abbas, a wood seller in Kabul states: “There are no buyers. People don’t have money. People have no choice other than their kids freeze in the winter or burn trash to keep themselves alive.”
The deepening economic crisis further impacted by international sanctions and the economic consequences of the Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict makes it impossible for millions of Afghans to make ends meet. Wheat, cooking oil and fertilizer prices have risen. People have lost their income sources and used up their financial reserves.
Mother of five, Mahjabeen says: “Winter is already here, and we don’t have anything to burn to warm my children. I get very sad to see them in this situation when they don’t even have clothes to wear.”
Haji Wali, a day labourer has brought his 8-month-old baby to an International Committee opf the Red Cross (ICRC) supported hospital with pneumonia. “If he is treated here and we take him home he will get sick again because we cannot afford to heat our home and provide him and my other children with proper nutrition.”
Child malnutrition cases are already 90% higher this year compared to all of 2021, rising from 33,000 cases to over 63,000 so far this year. Meanwhile, at an ICRC-supported children’s hospital in Kabul, the number of children under 5 being treated for pneumonia has risen 55 percent in 2022 versus the same period last year.
To provide life-saving assistance, the ICRC is supporting hospitals in Afghanistan paying for medical supplies, running costs and salaries for nearly 10,500 health workers – a third of whom are women. Those health services reach an estimated population of 26 million people. This year, the ICRC has also provided multipurpose cash grants to over 10,000 vulnerable families (80,000 individuals) across Afghanistan to help them meet their essential needs.
“Afghan families face an impossible choice: To eat or to buy heat. And, really, they can’t afford either, resulting in a frightening rise in malnutrition and pneumonia cases,” states Martin Schüepp, director of operations at ICRC. “Aid organizations can’t answer all the overwhelming cries for help. That’s why we’re urging states and development agencies to return to Afghanistan to continue providing support to the millions here in need.”
[1] This comes from data recorded in 33 hospitals across the country that are supported by the ICRC.
French title :
Afghanistan : la pneumonie infantile et la malnutrition augmentent alors que les familles sont confrontées à un choix impossible : manger ou se chauffer
English title :
Afghanistan : child pneumonia, malnutrition spikes as families face impossible choice : eat or heat
Spanish title :
Afganistán : la neumonía infantil y la desnutrición aumentan cuando las familias se enfrentan a una elección imposible : comer o calentarse
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