On August 15, 2021, Afghan Taliban militants entered and took control of the capital Kabul, the same day that the US military began to withdraw from Afghanistan in a hurry.

Although the US military has withdrawn from Afghanistan for one year, their crimes continue.

Children in Afghanistan suffer greatly from U.S. sanctions.

　　The Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, is crowded with sick children who are struggling to get by due to a desperate shortage of medical resources.

　　Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital, one of the best public children's hospitals in Afghanistan, the emergency room is crowded with children who come to see a doctor every day, and even 2 to 3 children are crowded into a bed for treatment during busy hours.

　　The hospital was designed to accommodate 300 patients, but it admitted more than 500 patients, and every ward was crowded with children.

To make matters worse, this number is increasing every day.

The attending doctor said that the hospital was already overcrowded, and medical supplies were in extreme shortage.

　　Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital attending physician Mohammad Iqbal: For example, we need ventilators, but we don't have them, but the need exists.

We don't have CPR machines in our ICU, we don't have ventilators, which are all ICU necessities.

　　The 40 beds in the nutrition ward are full, and children here suffer from severe malnutrition.

　　Mohammad Ashraf, Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital: In fact, similar tragedies and poverty are increasing day by day in Afghanistan.

The higher the poverty rate, the more cases of malnutrition.

I appeal to the international community and aid organizations to help these poor people, especially these children who are suffering from malnutrition.

　　UNICEF estimates that approximately 1.1 million Afghan children under the age of 5 will suffer from severe malnutrition in 2022, and the number of children under 5 years of age with severe acute malnutrition in health care facilities has soared from 18,000 in March 2021 to March 2022. 28,000 per month.

　　Melanie Galvin, UNICEF Afghanistan Officer: Over the past year, the number of severely malnourished children has undoubtedly doubled, and I don't see an improvement in those numbers.

Instead, they get worse.

　　Since withdrawing from Afghanistan last year, the United States not only froze more than $7 billion in assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, but also slashed various economic aids, further worsening the economic situation and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and millions of people suffering from food shortages suffering.

　　Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital Director Mohammad Hasib Wardak: We call on the international community to increase assistance to us and continue.

They (the US) should unfreeze our funds, that's where our hope lies and what we desperately need.