Hospitals in Somalia are struggling to handle the high number of malnourished children.
Save the Children organization in the East African nation reports that the number of malnourished children has increased substantially in the last few months.
According to the organization, the ongoing drought is responsible for the sharp rise in the number of children who are severely malnourished.
In its June 23 report, Save the Children concludes that Somalia is staring down the face of a famine that’s capable of killing hundreds of thousands of children.
The beds at most of the hospitals are full.
Wards are at their breaking points too.
Consequently, doctors now have no option but to take care of malnourished children outside in tents and meeting rooms.
Save the Children says that one of its facilities in Baidoa, the administrative capital of Southwest state, admitted 324 malnourished children in May 2022 alone.
The same facility has already surpassed that number before June even ends.