tayabullah, barely breathing, ill with pneumonia and malnutrition. his family wants us to see his condition. alone in a corner, his mother nigar realises her son is fading. doctors find a faint heartbeat. already defeated by a lack of resources, they re trying to revive him with the little they have. this man tells us it took eight hours, on rubble roads, to bring his grandson here. a family that can barely afford to eat, scrape together money to pay for the ride, trying to save their little boy. idema is one of two nurses treating 60 children. she makes a final attempt. minutes later, she tells nigar her boy has died. sobbing. they carry their baby home. he should be alive. every disease he had was curable. translation: i am also a mother, and when i saw the baby die, - i felt like i ve lost my own child. when i saw his mother sobbing, it broke my heart. it hurt my conscience. we don t have equipment and trained staff. there is nothing we can do but watch babies dying. barel
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public health care. what we ve seen raises questions about how that money was spent. in ghor, the hospital wasn t made strong enough to withstand a regime change. in the one and a half years since the taliban took over and foreign funding which propped up afghan health care was frozen, we ve been to hospitals and clinics all across this country. this is the worst we ve seen. it s hard to believe that this is the main provincial hospital. even this bare minimum is being held up because humanitarian agencies are funding some of the salaries, medicines and food. it is sorely insufficient. and if that funding is reduced further, there is no doubt that the direct result of that will be more children dying. and aid agencies have warned that donations which could help these
for 20 years, the world put billions of dollars into afghanistan s public health care. what we ve seen raises questions about how that money was spent. in ghor, the hospital wasn t made strong enough to withstand a regime change. in the one and a half years since the taliban took over and foreign funding which propped up afghan health care was frozen, we ve been to hospitals and clinics all across this country. this is the worst we ve seen. it s hard to believe that this is the main provincial hospital. even this bare minimum is being held up because humanitarian agencies are funding some of the salaries, medicines and food. it is sorely insufficient. and if that funding is reduced further, there is no doubt that the direct result of that will be more children dying.