{"id":46161,"date":"2024-08-29T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=46161"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:56:56","slug":"malnutrition-claims-lives-of-26-children-in-afghanistans-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/29\/malnutrition-claims-lives-of-26-children-in-afghanistans-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Malnutrition Claims Lives of 26 children in Afghanistan\u2019s Badakhshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malnutrition and inadequate food have claimed the lives of no fewer than 26 children under five in north Afghanistan\u2019s Badakhshan province over the past five months, a hospital source said Thursday.<br \/>\nAbdul Malik Rofi, a local medical doctor, said 365 children under five have been admitted to the hospital in Badakhshan during this period, with 26 of them succumbing to malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that since March 20, 2,696 children have been brought to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have attributed the rising number of malnutrition cases to a combination of factors, such as a lack of nutritious food and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors also added that inadequate healthcare services and limited access to healthcare facilities in the impoverished region were the causes.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from aid agencies, approximately 2.9 million children under five are facing acute food shortage or at risk of malnutrition across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malnutrition and inadequate food have claimed the lives of no fewer than 26 children under five in north Afghanistan\u2019s Badakhshan province over the past five months, a hospital source said Thursday. Abdul Malik Rofi, a local medical doctor, said 365 children under five have been admitted to the hospital in Badakhshan during this period, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":46168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[1440],"class_list":["post-46161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-afghanistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46169,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions\/46169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}