Hospital ward full of starving babies
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•Afghanistan: Babies dying as malnutrition disaster unfolds
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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.
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