Three stabilisation centres for children with severe acute malnutrition and medical complications have reopened, staffed by health workers who in several cases are themselves displaced.
4.9M
children estimated to be acutely malnourished
Reaching them depends less on supplies than on access. Each delivery route is negotiated separately, and a route that was open last week may not be open this week.
We have the therapeutic food. What we are short of is the ability to drive it to the children who need it, on a predictable schedule, without it being looted.
We repeat our call for all parties to guarantee safe and sustained humanitarian access, to protect health facilities and health workers, and to allow the commercial import of food and medicine on which the whole population depends.
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