Arakan News Agency
The United Nations warned on Friday that malnutrition among the Rohingya children refugees who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh has risen to high levels that are a threat to their lives.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said preliminary figures show that 7.5 percent of children in one of the overcrowded Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition.
More than 600,000 Rohingya people from Arakan province have fled Myanmar since late August during military operations, which the United Nations says amount to “ethnic cleansing” and represent the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.
About half of these refugees are children.
“The situation of children who continue to arrive is worrying,” UNICEF spokesman Christophe Bolierek told reporters in Geneva after a recent visit to the camps.
The agency and its partners provide treatment for more than 2,000 severely malnourished children near medical centers in several refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar.
