n't have antiseptic to use , '' Yousufzai said . The United Nations says that more than $ 15 billion in aid has been sent to Afghanistan since the U.S.-led coalition overthrew the Taliban in late 2001 . But still , the hospital can not afford to help the hundreds of children who stream in every day , desperate for care and cures . The government does pay for salaries and sometimes for fuel , but there is often a shortage of even basic supplies like syringes . Doctors say they have to double up premature babies in incubators . And some of those incubators are compromised . On a recent day , a plastic surgical mask taped onto one machine was the only shield from infection . Watch scenes from inside the hospital '' The parents waiting anxiously beside their sick children seem resigned to the situation in the hospital . One mother , who declined to give her name , said she spent the family 's entire weekly income of $ 8 on an injection that did not help her baby . `` This is something that the hospital should be giving us , because we ca n't
KABUL , Afghanistan -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Babies lie side by side in warming beds or sprawled on blankets atop crude wooden tables . Many families at Indira Gandhi Children 's Hospital in Kabul , Afghanistan , seem resigned to the situation . Children with wounds and broken bones are carried in by their parents to wait on stiff plastic chairs . Outside , coughing youngsters squat on the pavement with their anxious families , waiting for care . And everywhere , parents clutch plastic bags containing bring-your-own medicines and supplies . For though they are all awaiting treatment at Afghanistan 's only specialist pediatric hospital , the hospital can not even afford bandages for its patients . The Indira Gandhi Children 's Hospital in central Kabul has to run on an operating budget of less than $ 1,200 a month , said Dr. Noorulhaq Yousufzai , the hospital director . The few supplies that he can buy have to be hoarded for emergencies , and he has to count on parents to buy what 's needed to care for their children . `` In some cases , there is shortage of the surgical materials , and sometimes we do