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Mobile Clinic On Way To Madaya Where 32 Have Died From Hunger
[NRTTV] A mobile clinic and medical team is on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where the local community has reported that 32 people died of starvation in the last 30 days, United Nations...boodling on the grand scale... (UN) agencies said on Friday (Jan. 15). The Syrian government has given permission for the mobile clinic of the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy to enter the town and has also agreed for vaccination to be carried out. "[The World Health Organization] has called for mobile clinics to go in Madaya. So we got an agreement and the first mobile clinic has gone this morning to Madaya. This mobile clinic is operated by Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy and is a team, it's a medical team that will do medical examinations inside Madaya", Tarik Jasarevic of the World Health Organization (WHO) told a news briefing in Geneva. The local community's relief committee told officials of the United Nations' World Food Programme that 32 people had died of hunger in the last 30 days. The United Nations hopes to send convoys to Madaya and the rebel-besieged towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib next week, but no date has been set for Zabadani, OCHA front man Jens Laerke said. U.N. children's fund UNICEF confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in Madaya, where aid was delivered this week to thousands of people affected by the months-long blockade. "We can confirm that cases of severe malnutrition were found among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya. Our UNICEF representative and the team were particularly saddened and shocked to have witnessed the death of a young boy, Ali, a severely malnourished 16-year-old who passed away just in front of them", said UNICEF front man Christophe Boulierac. Dozens of deaths from starvation have been reported by monitoring groups, local doctors, and local aid agencies from Madaya, which is besieged by Syrian pro-government forces. UNICEF said that out of 25 children under the age of five screened by its staff and the World Health Organization, 22 showed signs of "moderate to severe" malnutrition. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-16 |
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