Over seven hundred thousand children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
Nura Shehu, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Nutrition Officer, Maiduguri Field office, said the agency is providing life-saving intervention to more than 14,000 children with moderate and severe acute malnutrition in Mafa Local government area of Borno State.
UNICEF has recorded a decline in Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates in Mafa, with cases decreasing from 14.3 to 11.3.
He disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Mafa town, the headquarters of Mafa local government.
“In an effort to respond to this emergency, the Borno state government, UNICEF, and other partners have scaled up interventions to deliver life-saving assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other vulnerable people in newly-resettled local governments of the state.
“At the Government Girls Arabic Secondary School, Mafa camp, which is home to 33,000 IDPs, health personnel are working to stabilize young children under five who are acutely malnourished and do not have any medical issues,” he said.
Hadiza Maina, a medical worker at one of the camp’s health facilities said more than 20 children with moderate and severe acute malnutrition are admitted daily.
She explained that many children are recovering from the ailment, however, confirmed that no malnutrition-related deaths have been recorded.
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