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Residents Suffer From Severe Food Shortages

Her death came after another child in Ghouta also died of malnutrition on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Abu Yahya said the region was not receiving basic foods children need, such as sugar, sources of protein and vitamins.The UN children’s fund UNICEF defines “severe acute malnutrition” as the most extreme and visible form of undernutrition.But food supplies still rarely enter the region, where medical officials say hundreds of children are suffering acute malnutrition.On September 23, a convoy carrying food and medical aid for some 25,000 people entered three besieged areas of Eastern Ghouta, according to the UN.

But Abu Yahya said what aid does reach the region covers just five to 10 percent of the needs of malnourished children. Her young mother sobbed nearby.Yahya Abu Yahya, doctor and regional head of medical services for Turkish NGO Social Development International, which has several medical centres in Ghouta, said the group’s centres had examined 9,700 children in recent months.“Residents suffer from severe food shortages, and when goods are available in the markets, it’s at a crazy price,” the Observatory said.Like hundreds of children in Ghouta, Sahar was suffering from acute malnutrition.According to UN figures, some 400,000 people live in besieged parts of Syria, the majority in Eastern Ghouta. Behind him, relatives walked with Sahar’s mother, nearly collapsing with grief..

Ghostly facesMedics at hospitals and health clinics in Eastern Ghouta say they examine dozens of malnourished children a day — and that the number is on the rise.She tried to cry but lacked the strength to make much of a noise.Eastern Ghouta is one of four “de-escalation zones” set up in May under a deal between backers of cotton athletic tape rival sides in Syria’s devastating six-year war.Images filmed by a reporter working with AFP showed a wide-eyed girl with listless eyes and little but skin on her bones.Images taken by an AFP correspondent show skeletal infants with ghostly faces.On Saturday, the parents of Sahar Dofdaa, just 34 days old, took her to a hospital in the Eastern Ghouta town of Hamouria

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