Medics struggle to revive Sudan's hungry with trickle of aid supplies
Hindustan TimesBy Eltayeb Siddig Medics struggle to revive Sudan's hungry with trickle of aid supplies SHARG ELNIL, Sudan, - In a nutrition ward at a hospital in Sudan's war-stricken capital, gaunt mothers lie next to even thinner toddlers with wide, sunken eyes. Alban Jadeed Hospital, in Bahri's Sharg Elnil district, received more than 14,000 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition last year, and another 12,000 with a more mild form, said Azza Babiker, head of the therapeutic nutrition department. The supply of therapeutic formula milk via U.N. children's agency UNICEF and medical aid agency MSF is insufficient, Babiker said, as RSF soldiers twice stole the supplies. The sharp reduction of USAID funding is expected to make things worse, hitting the budgets of aid agencies that provide crucial nutritional supplies as well as community kitchens relied upon by many, aid workers say.
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