The numbers are more than 12 times what they were in 1990. In Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Moldova, around two-thirds of the people are poor. Families are leaving their children in orphanages to ensure they have enough food. The situation has worsened since the fall of the former Soviet Union, the report said. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall called its food crisis one of the world's great disasters of the past 50 years.
Hospitals have almost no food, heating, or medicine.