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Save the Children warns that hunger could kill thousands of children in Myanmar
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 05 - 2008

Thousands of children in Myanmar could die
of starvation within two or three weeks, a charity said
Sunday, according to AP.
Save the Children UK said its research showed that an
estimated 30,000 children under 5 in Myanmar's Irrawaddy
Delta were already acutely malnourished when Cyclone Nargis
tore through the region _ and that several thousand among
them are now at risk of death.
«With hundreds of thousands of people still not receiving
aid many of these children will not survive much longer,»
the charity said in a statement. «Children may already be
dying as a result of a lack of food.»
Humanitarian aid agency Action Against Hunger described
the situation in the Bogale region of Myanmar where it was
working as «extremely alarming,» saying the priority of
every survivor they surveyed there was to find enough food
to eat.
«All day long, people are looking for food and for a way
of cooking the food they find,» the group said in a
statement. «For over 15 days, the survivors have mainly
been feeding themselves with wild fruits and vegetables and
moldy rice, which they are trying to dry.»
The group said the price of rice had quadrupled since the
cyclone struck the country and that some people were
already starving.
More than two weeks after the cyclone devastated Myanmar,
also known as Burma, aid agencies have chafed at government
restrictions preventing them from reaching the worse-hit
areas.
Heavy rains since the storm have also stymied relief
efforts, and relief agencies say inhabitants are suffering
from a shortage of safe water and proper sanitation. The
United Nations and others say that lack of proper aid could
dramatically worsen the crisis.
Save the Children said Myanmar's long-term food security
had been jeopardized by the cyclone because many farmers
were prevented from sowing seeds for the harvest, while
Action Against Hunger said most fishermen had lost all
their fishing equipment.
Myanmar's state-run television has said the cyclone death
toll is around 78,000 with about 56,000 missing. Aid groups
say those estimates are low.


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