
News
Share
Published 10:52 18 Jan 2022 GMT
Explore more on these topics:
Millions of Afghans are starving and relying on handouts from charities (credit: ITV News)[/caption]
Sahib Khan was a teacher, and told ITV News correspondent, John Ray: "The Taliban say we have peace, but what good is peace when our children are sick and I have debt collectors at my door.
"If someone will buy my daughter, then I will sell her."
When asked what will happen if he sold his daughter, Khan responded: "There is nothing else I can do. I am not able to care for her."
Ray witnessed the exhausted staff at one of Kabul's hospitals fighting to save the lives of desperately ill children.
Just five months after the Taliban took hold of Kabul, 98 per cent of people in Afghanistan are not getting enough to eat, while 24.4 million people (more than half the population) face extreme hunger.
Currently, 3.9 million children in Afghanistan face severe malnutrition which is up from 3.2m in October 2021.
What's more, because of the lack of food, many mothers are giving birth prematurely. On one premature baby ward, babies are having to share the same incubator because of the number of premature births and the fact that some of the incubators don't work.
[caption id="attachment_311989" align="alignnone" width="2048"]
Two babies share the same incubator at a children's hospital in Afghanistan (credit: ITV News)[/caption]
Related links:
Melanie Galvin, chief of nutrition at UNICEF Afghanistan, said: "It’s as severe as any crisis I have ever seen. We are seeing a doubling of cases of severe acute malnutrition. We think this is just the beginning. It is only going to get worse."
She added: "Unicef is working to bring supplies to all of the children everywhere."
Taliban spokesman, Bilal Karimi insists the scale of the crisis is overplayed and that the US should release the $9 billion dollars of the country’s assets.
"This money belongs to the people of Afghanistan.
"The people you say are hungry and facing starvation. It is not right to attach conditions."Coronation Street and Only Fools and Horses star David Daker dies
Tributes poured in Coronation Street and Only Fools and Horses star David Daker has died age 90. The news was announced by the British actor’s family who announced that he died on 30 April, with the news only being made public on 21 June. Best known for his roles in Boon and Only Fools and […]
News
just now
Red ‘danger to life’ extreme heat weather warning issued by Met Office
Scorchio The previous amber warning has been upgraded to a red ‘danger to life’ extreme heat weather warning by the Met Office. Summer has officially arrived – as of yesterday’s summer solstice – and the weather is certainly letting us know. With Keir Starmer cranking up the old weather machine as one last hoorah after […]
News
32 min
New details emerge as ‘missing’ GoPro warn by model during fatal bungee jump was ‘hidden’ after death
News