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Saudi Arabia inspects the progress of its project to confront malnutrition in Yemenþ
[The Source: ALYAMAN ALARABY Online \ Saleh Ahmed - Saturday 08 / Jul. / 2017]
A team from the King Salman Center for Relief and
Humanitarian Aid (KSRelief) has visited Nasab in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate to
inspect progress made in the project to confront malnutrition, Arab News
reported.
The number of children under 5 years of age diagnosed with
malnutrition in the targeted health facilities in Shabwa is 1,941, and the
number of children less than 5 years treated for acute malnutrition is 118.
The number of pregnant and lactating mothers with acute
malnutrition treated at the health facilities in Nasab is 258.
KS Relief has provided insecticides and spraying machines to
control desert locusts in order to prevent epidemics and maintain food security
in the governorates of Hadramaut, Shabwa, Abyan, Dhala, Marib, Jawf and Mahra,
in coordination with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture
and the Yemeni High Relief Committee, represented by the Yemeni Ministry of
Agriculture and Irrigation.
KS Relief has supported water and environmental sanitation
services, and provided drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable and
displaced people in Yemen. The Center also recently distributed food aid in
Abyan, it added.
In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Abyan Gov.
Abu Bakr Hussein lauded the Kingdom’s pivotal role in providing aid, as
represented by KS Relief.