Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress
KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her clinic crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants in the malnutrition ward. Her mother, Balqisa, had brought the baby to Indira Gandhi Children’s Healthcare facility in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, the night before. “Her system was so hot,” she…