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The International President of the M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res, also known as Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Christos Christou, has said there is a huge increase in the number of malnourished children in northern Nigeria.<\/div>\n
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\nChristou, who said this on Friday at a press briefing in Abuja after he visited Maiduguri, Borno State capital, noted that between January and August this year, there has been a 51 per cent increase in admissions of children with severe malnutrition compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

He said people in northern Nigeria have been through a lot with overwhelming levels of malnutrition, frequent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and lack of medical facilities and medical personnel;\u00a0 compounded by continuous insecurity.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cDuring my visit to Maiduguri, I visited the hospitals and clinics where MSF works. We support the local healthcare system in tackling malaria and other diseases, as well as in providing access to maternity services. Recently, we had to launch a cholera treatment centre, after a cholera outbreak was officially declared. All this has happened in the background of a catastrophic malnutrition crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my colleagues, a Nigerian doctor who has been working with MSF for more than eight years, told me that this year is very different. Every year, he said, during this season, we see terrible numbers of malnourished children coming to the hospital in a severe condition. But this year, at a time when the peak is supposed to be over, the number of patients admitted to the hospital is not going down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorse, the condition in which they arrive is even more severe than usual. Very often people don\u2019t have access even to basic medical care where they live and do not have enough money or available transport. As a result, they reach to us too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stated that many organisations which were providing support in Maiduguri and other parts of the north of Nigeria have had to reduce their budgets or even stop their operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past few years, MSF has seen a significant increase in the number of admissions for malnutrition. The numbers in 2022 and 2023 were already critically high. But between January to August this year, we have seen a 51 per cent increase in admissions of children with severe malnutrition, compared to the same period last year. Over the first eight months of this year, we have treated 52,725 children with severe malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, across the whole of northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn top of this, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles are recurrent in Nigeria and one of the leading causes of death amongst children. Between January \u2013 August this year alone, we had already treated over 12,500 cases of measles. That\u2019s nearly double the same period last year. Outbreaks of infectious diseases significantly increase mortality risks for children under the age of five.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnvaccinated children in this age group are particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, diseases which elevate the risk of acute malnutrition. That\u2019s nearly double the same period last year. Outbreaks of infectious diseases significantly increase mortality risks for children under the age of five.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnvaccinated children in this age group are particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, diseases which elevate the risk of acute malnutrition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Corroborating, the head of mission, MSF, Ahmad Bilal, stated that in states where MSF is operational, there have been 200,000 admissions in ambulatory therapeutic feeding centres and 52,000 admissions from January to August compared to that of last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, the ATFCs admission increased by 50 per cent while the inpatient therapeutic feeding centres admission increased by 60 per cent. There was a time when we were putting two patients in one bed\u00a0 and this is a concern when we see that increase by over 50 per cent,\u201d Bilal said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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