UNB, Dhaka :
One in four Rohingya children in Bangladesh are malnourished, placing them at increased risk of death, warns Save the Children.
According to new assessment data from Save the Children and four other organisations a quarter of Rohingya children under five who fled to Bangladesh in the past two months are suffering from acute malnutrition.
The assessment shows about a third of those children are ‘severely’ malnourished, meaning they are nine times more likely to die than the children who are not malnourished. They are significantly more vulnerable to infections and diseases like watery diarrhoea and chest infections.
“The situation is worse than we feared,” said Nicki Connell, Save the Children’s Emergency Nutrition Advisor in Cox’s Bazar, in a media release on Thursday.
“Large numbers of Rohingya children are arriving in Bangladesh already
malnourished. Then they are put in a situation where they have to rely on food rations to survive, where hygiene standards are poor, where clean drinking water is hard to come by and lots of people are getting sick as a result.
“Everyday we see children arrive at our health clinics in desperate need of theraputic food to stave off death. The scale of the problem cannot be overstated,” she said.
One in four Rohingya children in Bangladesh are malnourished, placing them at increased risk of death, warns Save the Children.
According to new assessment data from Save the Children and four other organisations a quarter of Rohingya children under five who fled to Bangladesh in the past two months are suffering from acute malnutrition.
The assessment shows about a third of those children are ‘severely’ malnourished, meaning they are nine times more likely to die than the children who are not malnourished. They are significantly more vulnerable to infections and diseases like watery diarrhoea and chest infections.
“The situation is worse than we feared,” said Nicki Connell, Save the Children’s Emergency Nutrition Advisor in Cox’s Bazar, in a media release on Thursday.
“Large numbers of Rohingya children are arriving in Bangladesh already
malnourished. Then they are put in a situation where they have to rely on food rations to survive, where hygiene standards are poor, where clean drinking water is hard to come by and lots of people are getting sick as a result.
“Everyday we see children arrive at our health clinics in desperate need of theraputic food to stave off death. The scale of the problem cannot be overstated,” she said.
