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Afghanistan: Babies dying as malnutrition disaster unfolds

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63% Informative

Seven-month-old Bibi Hajira is the size of a newborn.

She occupies half a bed at a ward in Jalalabad regional hospital in eastern Nangarhar province.

Seven hundred children have died in the past six months at the hospital more than three a day.

Condition has plagued Afghanistan for decades , triggered by 40 years of war and extreme poverty.

Only one out of five children who need hospital treatment can get it at Jalalabad hospital.

45% of children under the age of five are stunted shorter than they should be - in Afghanistan .

Unicef says stunting can cause severe irreversible physical and cognitive damage, the effects of which can last a lifetime.

VR Score

68

Informative language

69

Neutral language

49

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

36

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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