Nearly one million children suffer from malnutrition in South Sudan: Official
Photo: A woman holds her son, who is suffering from dehydration and is unable to walk, at an emergency medical facility supported by UNICEF in Kuach, South Sudan.(Credit: AP) Nearly one million children under the age of five across South Sudan suffer from malnutrition, a health official said.Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday, the Director of Nutrition at the Ministry of Health, Rebecca Alom William, said preliminary reports on the health situation in the country found that children and women are suffering from malnutrition.“We have estimated nearly one million children across South Sudan are malnourished including some mothers also,” she said. William attributed the high cases to violence. “In any situation where people are not stable, fleeing violence and there is no proper feeding, there is increment of such cases. When people don’t access health facilities and there is no access to pure drinking water, there is a high possibility of malnutrition,” she added. The official stated that the country’s major hospitals have been overwhelmed by cases of malnutrition including Juba Teaching Hospital.Share this -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14ooN-jNGTnk5gneSdZUQgTF_ecOFJYdaCukgGKxr62%2Bm%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
