The growing needs are far outpacing resources, UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado said at a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As of today, UNICEF says it has received just 7 percent of the $76 million required to provide emergency support to children over the next six months. • We will not be able to procure supplies of ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat 15000 children suffering from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM). • Some 80,000 children will have no access to basic healthcare, and about 100,000 newly-arrived refugee children will not be immunized against measles, rubella or polio. UNICEF is appealing to donors to help fulfil these children’s most fundamental right; to survive," the spokesperson said.

Source: bd News24 October 18, 2017 05:37 UTC