{"id":39113,"date":"2021-11-21T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/helmand-afghanistan-children-dying-in-hospitals-as-western-aid-switched-off"},"modified":"2021-11-21T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T05:00:02","slug":"on-helmands-bleak-wards-dying-children-pay-the-price-as-western-aid-to-afghanistan-is-switched-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39113","title":{"rendered":"On Helmand\u2019s bleak wards, dying children pay the price as western aid to Afghanistan is switched off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staff are unpaid, the drugs are running out. Gereshk hospital can only watch as tiny infants succumb to treatable diseases<\/p>\n<p>Shirin has paid heavily for both Afghanistan\u2019s conflict, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\" title=\"\">abrupt end in Taliban victory<\/a>. Three years ago her husband lost his leg when a roadside bomb hit his bus. Then in the summer the militants\u2019 victory brought peace to her corner of Helmand, but a halt to the foreign aid funds that paid her salary as a hospital cleaner and kept the family afloat.<\/p>\n<p>They fell behind on rent, were evicted from their home and began running out of food. Three weeks ago, worn down by cold, hunger and disruption, Mohammad Omar died from wounds that had never fully healed, leaving her a single mother to their four children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/helmand-afghanistan-children-dying-in-hospitals-as-western-aid-switched-off\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staff are unpaid, the drugs are running out. Gereshk hospital can only watch as tiny infants succumb to treatable diseasesShirin has paid heavily for both Afghanistan\u2019s conflict, and its abrupt end in Taliban victory. Three years ago her husband lo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113\/revisions\/39114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}