They Were So Small!!

Many of the toughest medical cases come to this clinic in the mountains here, sometimes traveling for days. Recently we went up on evening to check on a couple little malnourished babies who had been brought to the clinic. Both were in the same small room, darkly lit by lantern light. The parents were sitting up with them on the beds. One baby was premature, born 14 days ago, the other one, 26 days old, had had trouble nursing. Both were very tiny, and could hardly eat. The nurse practitioner on the team gave one a shot of antibiotics, and listened to the heart and breathing of the other. They were so so small!

After checking on the little ones, the families of the other patients also asked for help in the hospital - so to each room by lantern light we went, checking on a burned little girl who wasn’t eating much, and on a man who had had his leg amputated in Kabul and was in a lot of pain. We finally left after giving out some more medicine. After finding our lantern that one patient’s wife had borrowed we walked back under the rising moon home.

We found out the next day that both malnourished babies had died in the night.

The Hazara people we worked among this summer are very poor Muslims, like most of the people of Afghanistan. Most make their living by farming here, and have very simple village lives. And it is very hard for them to provide even basic things for their little children. The poorest people here do not own land. They just wander from year to year working for the landowners on the fields.

Please pray for the Hazara people of Afghanistan. Pray for more workers to go out and take the Love of Jesus to them.