In conjunction with the decline in support for organizations, malnutrition is ravaging children in southern Hodeidah
English - Tuesday 29 August 2023 الساعة 04:27 pm
Hayes, newsyemen, exclusive:
Recently, the number of children suffering from "malnutrition" has increased in the southern regions of Hodeidah, in conjunction with the decline in the support of international organizations, especially in the field of food.
In late July, the World Food Program (WFP) announced that it would stop providing assistance to prevent malnutrition in Yemen, starting in August, due to a funding shortage.
The program acknowledged that this stoppage will affect 2.4 million people suffering from malnutrition in the country, and these are the primary intended beneficiaries, especially children and women.
Currently, dozens of people exhausted by hunger are lying in the pediatric ward for malnutrition, most of whom were brought by their families from remote areas and others under the control of the terrorist Houthi militia, in search of health care and saving their children from the death of malnutrition, which has become lurking in millions of children and eating away at their soft bodies. .
In this regard, Amal Bajash, a physician assistant, stated that the inpatient department receives between 30 and 40 cases of severe acute malnutrition and complications per month. food for them, until the condition improves
Bajash confirmed that most of the cases come from the countryside of Hays and neighboring areas west of Taiz, and other districts south of Hodeidah, and most of them are displaced people, attributing the reason for the increasing number of malnourished people in those areas to the lack of food security and the lack of attention to them by humanitarian organizations and the provision of integrated and healthy food for families. The needy and those who lost sources of income as a result of the war.
In turn, the Director of the Health Office in Hays, Dr. Muhammad Talib Hamna, referred to the serious complications resulting from malnutrition, and said: "The malnutrition department we have has 14 cases, in addition to other cases that left the department after their recovery during the month of August."
He added, "Acute and severe malnutrition has begun to spread in a very large way, and there is an increasing demand for the rural hospital and the inpatient department. Sometimes cases are transferred to some hospitals outside the district, because the department is unable to accommodate them," hoping that the concerned authorities are aware of the dangers of this disease, which is now threatening. children's lives, and support us with the necessary treatments.
Tafeez Saleh, a resident of Maqbana, west of Taiz Governorate, who lives in a remote mountain village, and a mother of a malnourished girl. Her child’s body withered in front of her due to hunger, disease, poverty, and their inability to secure a source of livelihood. She told NewsYemen: “We went down from Shamir Maqbana to The city of Hays, in order to save the life of my malnourished child, and in our area there are no services and no food or anything reaches us.”
She added that the condition of her malnourished child deteriorated and she had complications, so she developed a fever and diarrhea, and when she entered the inpatient department, she received care and her condition improved, and she received attention from doctors and took care of her with the best care, and confirmed that her child's condition is now stable and better than it was.
Many of the children hospitalized in Hays Hospital, their condition is similar to that of the child of Tahfeez Saleh, and they did not add to (Newsyemen) reporter more than what Tahfeez said, but rather stressed the tragic situation they live in under the control of the Houthi militias over their areas.
Those interested in the Yemeni issue agree that with the expansion of the war and poverty, acute malnutrition cases increase with it, which means that children are approaching starvation and their urgent need for urgent support, according to UNICEF warnings.
