Yemeni children direly suffer due to the current political conditions and insecurity, particularly in South Yemen, said Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director of he UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
She said that UNICEF faces difficulties in delivering food to children, affirming that the organization is currently seeking to find out new ways to deliver assistance to Yemeni children.
In an interview with the London-based Arabic language Alsharq Alawsat newspaper, Salah said UNICEF cooperated with local and international non-governmental organizations and societies to deliver assistance.
She affirmed that Yemeni Children are, more than ever, vulnerable to sever acute malnutrition and diseases.
Malnutrition of Yemeni children amounted 31.4 percent, and UNICEF could only reach 30 percent of those children needed to medicine, added she.
Salah said Yemen instability and turbulence prevented many aid agencies from adequately providing urgent assistance to many areas and plunged ordinary Yemenis into harsh suffers.
A report of UNICEF released in mid-December cited that Between January and November 2011, 58,338 children under five with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) were treated in 374 Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) facilities.
CMAM were first initiated in Yemen in 2008 and now operates in 374 health centers in 17 out of Yemen’s 21 governorates.
According to SOS Children’s Village, half of Yemen children are moderately or severely underweight and more than half suffering from stunting.
"The child mortality rate in 2009 was 66 per 1,000 live births" it said.
Representative of UNICEF in Yemen, Geert Cappelaere, told the Washington Post that Yemeni children were bearing the biggest burnt of the political situation.
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