Because of International Funding cuts, Afghanistan is facing a hunger and health care crisis.

Good morning.

This is the Marketplace Morning Report and we are live from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. We begin in Afghanistan where a severe

hunger crisis is unfolding. Before August 2021, nearly all public health

care in the country was funded by international aid given directly to the Afghan

government however after the Taliban takeover these funds were cut off due to

sanctions leading to a collapse of the health care system.

The BBC has found that the direct impact of that

is a rapid rise in child mortality.

From Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the BBC's

Ogitilamaya reports, and a warning you may find her report distressing.

I'm in the main regional hospital in Jalalabad which is the capital of Nangar province in the east of Afghanistan.

I'm seeing in front of me just to see of people who are coming in bringing in their sick children.

And what we've been told is that every day on an average

about 600 children come here who need to be treated in a hospital but there are

only a hundred and twenty beds.

Even the facilities that are operating those are being supported at the moment by

international aid organizations but in the past couple of years we've seen dramatic

aid cuts. What we're witnessing in front of us

is a direct impact of that cut in aid and it's also the impact of the Taliban

government's policies especially their restrictions on women, which have resulted

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