UNICEF: Over 3 million Yemeni children born since Saudi waged war
YemenExtra
M.A.
UNICEF stated that more than 3 million children were born in Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition waged war against the Arab country on March 26 of 2015, in a statement released on Tuesday.
The UN report stressed that it will work hard to ensure its services available for children, particularly whom will be born during this year in an attempt to alleviate the suffering.
“More than 3 million children were born in Yemen since the escalation of violence in March 2015 resulting in the worst and hardest conditions,” UNICEF Representative in Yemen, Michele Relano said in a press conference in the capital Sana’a.
She reviewed that 1, 600,000 children were born outside the hospitals and without any health supervision, which exposed their lives to danger, and 25,000 children die every year at birth or during the first month since being born, while 30 percent live with deficient weights and 30 percent were born before the expected date of birth due to lack of basic living materials such as clean water, food, and others.
“An estimated 1.5 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly 400,000 acutely malnourished children who are fighting for their lives.” Relano said.
Regarding the outbreak of diphtheria, the UNICEF Representative in Yemen confirmed that the number of cases registered to date has reached 600.