Bangladesh: Rohingya acute hunger for children in the middle of a neighborhoods of funds

“Children in the world’s largest refugee camp experience the worst levels of malnutrition because the mass transfer occurred in 2017. years” Early flowers, UNICEF A representative in Bangladesh, told reporters in Geneva, almost eight years of hundred thousand ethnic rohing flows widespread military attacks in Myanmar.

Speaking from Dhake, Mrs. Flowers said that last month in Cox’s bazaar camps, the reception for severe acute malnutrition increased by over 27 percent compared to 2024 February, with more than 38 children under five.

Amazing death

“If additional resources are not provided, only half of children in need will have access to treatment this year, and that will leave about 7,000 risks, with the expectation of increasing morbidity and mortality,” said Mrs. Flowers. “It’s the baby’s babies.”

Bangladesh hosted more than a million Rohingy without citizenship in neighboring Myanmar for several years after the brutal military collapsing in 2017. years. Some 500,000 Rohingya refugee children live in Cox’s Bazaar camps.

The representative of UNICEF emphasized several “combining crises” that drives an increase in malnutrition. Among them, the unusual long-year-old Monsoon season, which made the unsanitary conditions in the camps, bringing severe diarrhea in children and break out cholera and dengue. Violence against the border in Myanmar launched more displacement while food was thrown.

Now, the global crisis of assistance funds have refugee families on the edge of the “extreme despair.”

“On those foods reached a critical point,” said Mrs. Flowers. “According to the world food program, without current financing, meals could soon be reduced to less than half of only $ 6 per month, the amount that deeply diets from basic nutritional needs.”

She emphasized that pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers along with newborns among the most endangered.

Myanmar is still not sure

The representative of UNICEF insisted that these families “can’t return home yet” in Myanmar. Only 10 days ago in a briefing for the UN Human Rights CouncilThe High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that the country was involved in one of the world’s worst crisis for human rights. He has published a “campaign for the terroring the population of Myanmar Army” through terrorizing the population “.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh also have no legal right to work, said Mrs. Flowers, which makes them go to help.

“Permanent humanitarian support is not optional. It is important,” she insisted.

UN Secretary General António Guterres He was appointed to travel to Bangladesh later this week and meeting Rohingya refugees in Cox’s bazaar, as part of his annual visit to the Solidarity Ramadan.

Freeze Fund

Asked about the influence of the main cuts in the United States, Ms. Flowers said that after the announcement of the American side of aid earlier this year, UNICEF received the Food Program in UNICEF.

“It can enable us to use therapeutic food ready for use for treatment and cure very sick children with strong acute malnutrition. But we need renunciation and real funding for the maintenance of this work,” said Mrs. flowers.

She emphasized that the financing for detection and processing services for the agency for the malnutrition of the children to run out in June 2025. Years.

The U.S. state department announced Monday to end about 80 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs).

Ms. Flowers added that “other American grants for Bangladesh interrupted”, which represent about a quarter of the cost of answering UNICEF Rohingy.

Without financing “Services for these children will be significantly abolished, putting their survival, safety and the future at risk,” she said.

The parts of the humanitarian response that are in danger involves safe water services and sanitary services, which will be worsening, increasing the risk of deadly disease epidemics with the effects of public health. “Ms. flowers warned. Access to health will be reduced, “,” clinics will close and the immunization will be disturbed, “she said.

“Education will cut off, leaving hundreds of thousands without learning opportunities. And it’s out of hope,” she concluded.