Malnutrition kills children in Yemen’s Hodeidah: Visual Report

HODEIDAH, Feb. 14 (YPA) – The Unjust siege, the continuous bombardment, the stifling crisis and all that caused by the war waged by Saudi-led coalition against Yemen in general and Hodeidah province in particular, have created a tragic environment for malnourished children, which has affected Yemeni children in the first place and the society as whole in all its categories.

A visual report, published by Al-Alam TV Channel on malnutrition in Yemen, referred that the number of malnourished children and congenital malformation cases in displaced families has increased, in addition to their suffering from poisons that spread as a result of the rockets attacks.

“A choking blockade has been imposed by the coalition and its mercenaries from land, sea and air on the province of Hodeidah since the beginning of the aggression, which led to an increase in rates of poverty, destitution and famine that adults cannot bear, so how children lying in hospitals can do?” said the report.

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“Othman” is a child with a slim body lying in the hospital, whose family suffered the tragedy of displacement from one area to another to escape the horrors of war and became unable to feed its members or feed him.

“If we had money, we would have treated him but we do not have,” Othman’s mother told the channel’s correspondent.

Badriya Mohammed, a pediatrician at the hospital where Othman is lying, told the correspondent: “We receive from 50 to 60 cases of malnutrition every month. Most children suffer from malnutrition because of the difficult living condition.”

“Most mothers can not provide their children with milk, food and diapers,” she explained, noting that the living condition of Othman’s parents is difficult because they are displaced and moving from place to another.

By moving to another area, the tragedy was no less than the previous one. The thin bodies fill this center, which is unable to absorb their numbers that increase day after day, and their health condition worsens because they can not reach the city’s hospitals.

“Malnutrition is considered one of the war diseases, as incomes decrease and diseases spread,” Ashraf al-Adimi, another pediatrician at the hospital, said.

Children’s crying in this hospital appeals to every living conscience to stop this suffering and lift the siege on the stricken province.

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