(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News Report
KABUL: Some two million children in Afghanistan are
suffering from malnutrition, while 485,000 pregnant women are deprived from
food safety, said the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF).
The UNICEF said Tuesday in a report that it had surveyed
children under the age of five, pregnant and lactating women in 22 provinces.
The report mentioned last year's drought across Afghanistan,
saying that the impacts of drought would remain in 2019 and would affect food
safety.
It called children under age of five, pregnant and lactating
women as most vulnerable against food safety.
The UN Save the Children says that 600,000 children were
facing acute malnutrition in Afghanistan, with children without food safety
were in danger of diseases nine times to other children.
The UNICEF report says that 550,000 people were in severe
need to urgent help in 2018, while 3.6 million people need foodstuff.
It predicts that 6.3 million people would need humanitarian
assistance in 2019 in Afghanistan.
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