KABUL:  United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that if urgent action is not taken, 1 million children in Afghanistan would die of acute malnutrition, a report said.

On Wednesday, the UN agency took to Twitter to discuss the situation of a two-year-old kid, saying: "Soria, two years old, is back in the hospital after recovering from acute watery diarrhoea. She is again suffering from edoema and wasting. Her mother has been at Soria's bedside for the past two weeks, waiting for her to get better." "Without prompt action, 1 million children might die from severe acute malnutrition," Unicef stated in a subsequent tweet.

Unicef projects that by 2022, 24.4 million Afghans, including 13.1 children, will require humanitarian aid. Due to the food crisis and limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services, 1.1 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished.

Over 60,000 cases of measles were reported in 2021, indicating that outbreaks of life-threatening infections are still occurring.

According to the Taliban's Ministry of Public Health, there are around 4.4 million malnourished children in Afghanistan.

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