{"id":4950,"date":"2017-10-25T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4950-more-than-1-100-children-in-syria-s-ghouta-suffer-from-malnutrition-unicef\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T06:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:16:39","slug":"more-than-1-100-children-in-syria-s-ghouta-suffer-from-malnutrition-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4950-more-than-1-100-children-in-syria-s-ghouta-suffer-from-malnutrition-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,100 children in Syria&#8217;s Ghouta suffer from malnutrition: UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than 1,100 children in war-torn Syria&#8217;s Eastern Ghouta district, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, are suffering from various forms of malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than 1,100 children in war-torn Syria&#8217;s Eastern Ghouta district, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, are suffering from various forms of malnutrition.<\/h4>\n<h4>UNICEF\u2019s Spokeswoman Monica Awad said on Monday that, based on a three-month survey, 1,114 Syrian children in total were found to be suffering from malnutrition in the district, which is held by the foreign-backed militants.<\/h4>\n<h4>She added that of these children, 232 were afflicted by the most hazardous form of malnutrition, known as \u201csever acute malnutrition,\u201d a level of undernourishment that needs urgent treatment if the child is to survive, and 882 others suffered from moderate acute malnutrition.<\/h4>\n<h4>Awad also warned that more than 1,500 other children were still at risk, adding, \u201cDuring the past month, there have been two reported deaths among infants, one girl aged 34 days and a boy aged 45 days, due to insufficient breastfeeding.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>The UN official also stated that mothers\u2019 lack of access to quality food had made them \u201cfrail\u201d and unable to breastfeed their children.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than 1,100 children in war-torn Syria&#8217;s Eastern Ghouta district, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, are suffering from various forms of malnutrition. \u00a0 \u00a0The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than 1,100 children in war-torn Syria&#8217;s Eastern Ghouta district, on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[292,122,41,338],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-children","tag-damascus","tag-syria","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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