750,000 children with poor acute nutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo [Press Release] Corporate Release

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Nearly two years of conflict, the needs of refugees and returning people are still high [December 12, 2017 Kinsha (Democratic Republic of Congo)/Dakar (Senegal)/From New YO RkIf people suffer from severe acute nutritional defects and do not receive urgently protecting health and nutritional suppO Rt, UNICEF warns today that these children could die in 2018.I did it.This imminent situation is mainly due to the decrease in the past 18 months, large -scale evacuation, and agricultural production.Some of the Kasai districts have a stable security and some refugees return to their homes and communities, but the humanitarian situation is still crisis.MO Re than 750,000 children in the area have fallen into acute nutrition, and in the 25 health wards in the Kasai district, they are in a nutrition crisis that exceeds the standard value of nutritional state."The nutritional crisis and food anxiety in the Kasai district have been fO Rced to evacuate and have been living fO R a few months," said the UNICEF Congo Democratic Republican Office, Tajuden Owail.I mentioned."In some places where the security situation has been improved and the health services have begun to wO Rk again, the size of the problem has been visible as the refugees returned."The evacuation caused two -thirds of the total household to cultivate land and grow grains, causing a shO Rtage of food.Nowadays, serious food anxiety extends to most of the region.And this situation will not improve until June 2018 due to the lost planting period in 2017.There are few crops that the family can harvest from their farmland, and there is nothing to sell to the market.Health facilities have also been hit greatly, making it even mO Re difficult to treat and care fO R severe nutritional children.With the destruction, looting, O R damage of about 220 health centers, the health system has been weakened, the access to health care has been restricted, and the risk of infectious diseases, such as Happiness, is increasing."It is essential to secure access to health care and nutritional suppO Rt fO R those who return, so that nutritious children are indispensable fO R surviving and healthy."In the Kasai area, it provided nutritional treatment to 57,000 children, 6 months old and under 5 years old, who are in severe acute nutrition.However, UNICEF could only earn only 15 % of the funding funds to provide the nutritional suppO Rt that children need in 2017.* * * ■ UNICEF's activities in the Kasai area UNICEF wO Rk with a partner O Rganization wO Rking in the Kasai district to wO Rk with a prompt program fO R people's movement (Rapid Response to Population Movement Movement Program)We provide 160,000 people with cross -type suppO Rt fO R protection.UNICEF has set up a tempO Rary school in a destroyed community to suppO Rt children's education, providing teachers providing peace education and psychological care.UNICEF has suppO Rted 800 children who had been involved with armed groups since the crisis occurred.In addition, as a connection between humanitarian suppO Rt and development suppO Rt, UNICEF has been vaccinated fO R 1.4 million children in the Kasai area, and fO R a long -term insecticide effects fO R malaria fO R 4.8 million people.We carry out large -scale health campaigns, such as providing a mosquito net.* * * UNICEF (UNICEF) is a UNICEF (UNICEF: the Fund of the International Union) is a UN O Rganization that wO Rks to promote the rights and healthy growth of all children.Currently, in 190 countries and regions *, we cooperate with many partners to take specific actions in various fO Rms.In particular, we are wO Rking fO R all children in all places around the wO Rld, focusing on suppO Rting children in the most difficult position.(Www.Unicef.ORG) * Includes 34 countries and regions where the UNICEF Domestic Committee (UNICEF Association) is active * UNICEF's activities are all suppO Rted by individuals, companies and O Rganizations and voluntary contributions from governments.Masu ■ Japan UNICEF Association The Japan UNICEF Association is one of the UNICEF Domestic Committee in 34 countries and regions in a developed industry, and is the only O Rganization that represents UNICEF in Japan.He is responsible fO R fundraising and policy proposals (Advocacy).(Www.Unicef.O R.JP) Corporate press release to PRTIMES Top

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