In Kabul children's hospital, medics struggle with staff shortages


Three babies share an incubator at the premature infants ward at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 24, 2021. Picture taken October 24, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

KABUL (Reuters) - In Kabul's main children's hospital, the crumbling of Afghanistan's health system is reflected in the eyes of exhausted staff as they eke out fast-diminishing stocks of medicines.

As crowds of mothers and sick children fill waiting rooms in the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital, medical staff are squeezing three babies into a single incubator and doubling them up in cot-like infant warmer beds.

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