MSF Launches Emergency Aid After Dozens Of Children Die In Nigeria Camp
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 18, 2018 | 12:36 AM
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday it was providing emergency help after 33 children died in a camp housing people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria.
Lagos, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Aug, 2018 ) :Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday it was providing emergency help after 33 children died in a camp housing people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria.
MSF said that the children died of malnutrition, diarrhoea and malaria between August 2-15 in Bama, once the second-largest town in the ravaged state of Borno but now a humanitarian hub.
Children were arriving at the camp in a "critical condition" and their health was worsening in the absence of proper medical care, MSF said in a press statement.
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