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Inside a Kabul children's hospital as Afghanistan's health system crumbles

Afghanistan's health system is crumbling amid the fallout of a rapidly spreading economic crisis that has threatened millions with hunger.

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Inside a Kabul children's hospital as Afghanistan's health system crumbles

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  1. Inside a Kabul children's hospital as Afghanistan's health system crumbles

  2. As crowds of mothers and sick children fill waiting rooms in the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital, medical staff are squeezing three babies into a single incubator and doubling them up in cot-like infant warmer beds. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  3. Nurses who once took care of three or four babies each are now having to look after 20 or more to make up for the absence of staff who fled the country when the Taliban seized power in August. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  4. Although the number of blast victims and war wounded have fallen since the fighting ended, Afghanistan's hospitals are grappling with the fallout of a rapidly spreading economic crisis that has threatened millions with hunger. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  5. U.N. agencies say as much as 95% of the population does not regularly have enough to eat and last month, the head of the World Health Organisation warned the health system was on the brink of collapse as international aid has dried up.

  6. For the medical team, it is the acute staff shortage that is causing the heaviest strain. They have not been paid in months and often struggle even to pay their car fare to work.

  7. Nurses who would normally be taking care of three or four babies for each nurse are now handling 23. "It is a lot of load on us," she said. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  8. Farooq lies in a shared incubator at the premature infants ward at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  9. The hospital, built during the Soviet era in 1985 and financed by Indian aid money, has 360 beds but is operating well over capacity because of the lack of functioning clinics in the provinces around Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  10. A family is seen at the intensive care unit at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  11. A 40-day-old baby lies in bed at the premature infants ward. The doctor said that the baby did not cry at the moment of birth and the brain has not receivied proper circulation in the last 40 days. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  12. Three babies share an incubator at the premature infants ward at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, October 24.

  13. A family at the intensive care unit at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  14. Mohammad Latif Baher, assistant director of the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital, said officials from the U.N.

  15. Three babies share an incubator at the premature infants ward at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  16. Women stand at the intensive care ward of the children hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

  17. Babies sleep in a shared bed at the maternity unit at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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