Arakan News Agency
The five-year-old was so thin that doctors could not get the solution into his meager arm, making him one of the thousands of Rohingya children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps.
The child was reportedly had not eaten in eight days, according to AFP.
While some lucky people managed to get to the crowded clinics in time, others were not lucky enough so they to beg on the side of the road.
The United Nations said more than 14,000 children are at risk of dying from malnutrition in poor camps, with half a million Rohingya refugees relying entirely on charity organizations to survive.
The United Nations noted that the distribution of food in overcrowded settlements remains improvised and uncoordinated, more than a month after the influx of refugees into southern Bangladesh began to escape the bloodshed in Myanmar.
Many of the Rohingya people are in a state of hunger as charity organizations struggle to feed 500,000 mouths a day. Children make up the bulk of the newcomers and are more at risk because of the scarcity of food. 145,500 children under the age of five need urgent intervention to ward off malnutrition, According to relief agencies.
The Director of the Emergency Health Unit of Save the Children, Dr. Uni Krishnan, said that many children show all signs of hunger and malnutrition.
