Infant mortality rate huge with Afgan health system in ruins due to war

Video: Afghan child deaths soar

 

 
 Afghanistan’s child mortality rate soars 
 

Decades of war have left the health system in ruins, and the population at severe risk by disease and injury.

The situation is especially grave for pregnant women.

Afghanistan has some of the highest maternity and infant mortality rates in the world.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from the Children’s Hospital in the capital, Kabul.