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| A cholera epidemic has spread in Helmand area of Helmand province. (Photo: getty images) |
Patients in a dilapidated hospital ward in southern Afghanistan are just one symptom of the humanitarian crisis that has gripped the troubled country since the Taliban returned to power a year ago.
Poverty and hunger are most acutely felt in the southern districts of Afghanistan.
Due to drought and financial difficulties, the lack of wheat in the world market is having an impact on the country that cannot buy grain, which is also affecting Russia's Ukraine.
It has become expensive after the attack.
After the outbreak of cholera in Helmand province last month, Musa Qila District Hospital was closed to all patients except suspected cholera patients.
The hospital was filled with cholera patients in a short time but then they Syringes and injections were in short supply.
The district hospital in Helmand has inadequate facilities for cholera testing and in a few days 550 patients were admitted who fell ill due to lack of clean drinking water and sanitation in the area.
"It is a very difficult time," Ehsanullah Rudi, the head of the hospital. The United Nations says that Afghanistan has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Poverty and hunger in Afghanistan
A woman sitting on a hospital bed with her six-month-old grandson in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand, said, "Since the Emirate (Taliban) came to power, we are not even getting cooking oil," the woman said.
The poor people are being crushed.
The woman's grandson has been admitted to the hospital for the fifth time. The hospital in Helmand is jointly run by the Afghanistan Ministry of Health and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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| The global economic crisis has exacerbated the food crisis in Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP) |
Every bed in this hospital is being occupied by two weak and weak children who are suffering from malnutrition and their strength is being restored through drips.
Not even available.''Brishna estimates her age to be between 15 and 20 years.
"We don't get anything to eat for three to four days," she says. Assistant Nursing Supervisor Humira Nowrozi said that she doesn't get time to rest.
"We get a lot of patients who are in critical condition because the parents don't have the resources to travel to get the children to the hospital quickly," he said. Patients cannot come to the hospital.
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