Persons eat trees' leaves, children die of acute faminein in Hajjah


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Yemen News Agency SABA
Persons eat trees' leaves, children die of acute faminein in Hajjah
[22/ September/2018]
HAJJAH, Sept. 24 (Saba) - In a small place in the south of Yemen there are some people life without any food exactly children.




They do not find what they eat so they prepare a meal from leaves, which they cook as a green paste.




In this place live very hungry children, who are considered in famine.

This place is a small village called Aslm in Hajjah province.

Aslm is one of the poorest areas in Yemen.

In this place there is no electricity in the health center or pediatricians, Oxygen cylinders or easy medication.

The Children who come to the healthy center return to their village, where food is not available and the water is contaminated, then they return in the case of worse than before if they could come again.

Waleed Shamshan, Head of Nutrition Section in Ministry of Health in a report said that 17000 people suffer from hunger in the six past mounts in this year, which is higher than that recorded in any previous full year.

At least 20 children are known to have died of starvation this year in this place after three year of war against Yemen.

Actuallythe children’ death more and more than but some families do not report the death of their child, as the official said.




In the nearest village, Zahra, aged 7, is crying, she tries to her mother breast to feed, but her mother cannot doing anything to her because she cannot feed her from her breast and she cannot buy milk.




Although, the mother as well as her child's health are very bad,most family here never find easy food.



They are cooking the leaves of trees eat it.

The mother say, I feel my heart hurts me when I see my baby cry and stand without doing anything to her and her father cannot take her to the center because he do not find a car or a motorcycle.

Amal / Ahmed Al-Mutawakel

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