GENEVA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in seven of those in need —the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
Child wasting, the deadliest form of malnutrition,has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces, while the number of children being admitted to health centres is rising sharply, WFP’s country director in Afghanistan, John Aylieff,told reporters in Geneva.
