Malnutrition Kids In Yemen
London approximately 85 000 children under the age of 5 have died in yemen from severe hunger since april 2015 according to a new report from save the children.
Malnutrition kids in yemen. Forty per cent of these 400 000 are living in hodeida and in neighbouring governorates where the war is raging. There are in yemen during any given year 1 8 million children suffering from acute malnutrition. Nearly five years after the start of the conflict yemen remains the largest emergency globally with 24 million people out of the population of 30 5 million in need of humanitarian assistance. Only 15 per cent of children are eating the minimum acceptable diet for survival growth and development.
Without access lifesaving aid the children of yemen already more vulnerable as a result of malnutrition and a devastated health system might be pushed over the edge. Despite these enormous challenges save the children is reaching many of the most vulnerable children across yemen. 1 the conflict has left 3 6 million people including 2 million children internally displaced and at least 500 000 public sector workers have been without salaries for three years. Children s agency warned about last week that millions of children in war torn yemen could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus sweeps across the arab world s poorest country and as humanitarian agencies suffer from a huge drop in funding.
Children under the age of five are at greater risk of death from severe malnutrition an estimated 85 000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war. In yemen children s nutrition is increasingly threatened with consequences throughout the lifecycle and acute malnutrition is now at serious levels across the country. Issa s condition mirrors what the u n. Like him hundreds of children suffer from acute severe malnutrition because of poverty and grinding conflict.
In this sunday june 14 2020 photo seven month old issa ibrahim nasser is brought to a clinic in deir al hassi at seven months old issa weighs only three kilos. As the coronavirus spreads tens of thousands more children could develop life threatening severe acute malnutrition over the next six months while the overall number of malnourished children under the age of five could increase to a total of 2 4 million. In yemen one out of three children and one out of five pregnant and lactating mothers are at risk of acute malnutrition.