Malnutrition problem, made the number of deaths of Afghan children has increase

News24xx.com -  The humanitarian conflict in Afghanistan has left many children abandoned. The UN Children’s Fund or Unicef has now expressed their concerns over the condition that the children are living in. And now, Afghanistan was one of the three countries in the world still fighting Cross-country access was difficult due to security reasons.

According to a report of UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released in October 2017, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan had caused 2,480 child casualties including 689 deaths during the first three quarters of this year. This year, 10 polio cases were registered in the country

Not only it, many children in Afghanistan lives with very sad condition. No access to school, malnutrition, made the condition look seems to be deteriorating for the kids, both in terms of health and living conditions.

But that very pathetic issue for children in Afganistan is malnutrition. Adele Khodr, Unicef’s country representative said there were 600,000 children who were severely malnourished in Afghanistan, describing the situation as severe acute malnutrition.

She said the rate chronic malnutrition in Afghanistan was 41 percent.

“We have a very serious concern about the education of children in Afghanistan because there are 3.5 million children who are out of school while they are supposed to be in school. And 75 percent of those 3.5 million children out of school were girls,” Khodr told as quoted from Xinhua news agency.

Khodr also expressed concern over the quality of teaching for children and their learning levels. The education situation has improved in Afghanistan since the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001.

According to Afghan Presidential Palace, less than 1 million children had access to education during Taliban’s reign. The number has soared to more than 9.5 million children with 40 per cent of them girls attending 15,000 schools across the country in 2016.

 

 

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