The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced that it has provided 475,000 children in Afghanistan with therapeutic food rich in protein, vitamins and minerals this year with the aim of combating malnutrition.
UNICEF said that the therapeutic food was provided through 3,300 service centres.
"Prepared therapeutic food, which is rich in protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, is a powerful solution in the fight against severe acute malnutrition," UNICEF wrote in a note on social media platform X on Monday, January 30.
According to a recent report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 343,000 children with acute malnutrition have been admitted to Afghan hospitals for treatment this year.
Earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had announced that food insecurity has become a growing crisis in Afghanistan, and that 2.9 million children under the age of five are currently facing malnutrition.
International organisations said that due to the spread of poverty and hunger, an increasing number of Afghan children are at risk of malnutrition.
