Afghanistan Hospital
Afghanistan hospital razes trees for fuel amid severe economic crisis
Kabul/IBNS: An Afghanistan hospital, which is facing a severe economic crisis, has cut down trees to use as cooking fuel in its kitchen, media reports said.
The chief of Indira Gandhi Children Hospital located in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Mohammad Latif Bahir, told Tolo News the hospital cut down trees planted in its yard to cook food for patients and employees.
“With the fall of the former government and the shortage of international aid, we face a lack of fuel. We were obliged to use the trees planted in the yard of the hospital to provide food for the patients and staff,” Mohammad Latif Bahir, head of the hospital, told the Afghan media outlet.
A foreign organization had provided the hospital with fuel for a month.
“A foreign organization pledged to provide fuel for a period of one month. If the fuel problem is not solved, the hospital will again be forced to cut down the trees,” a person in charge of the logistics affairs at the hospital told the news portal.
The hospital is also struggling with a spike in the number of patients.
The doctors even said they have not been paid for the past several months.
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