MSF raises alarm as child malnutrition worsens in Kebbi

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has raised alarm implicit the worsening kid malnutrition situation successful Kebbi State, informing that thousands of children are astatine hazard arsenic cases of terrible acute malnutrition proceed to emergence crossed the state.

This was contained successful a property connection signed by Abdulkareem Yakubu, Field Communication Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and made disposable to DAILY POST on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the planetary aesculapian humanitarian organisation recorded a crisp summation successful terrible malnutrition cases among children betwixt 2024 and 2025, prompting concerns astir rising kid mortality successful the north-western state.

MSF Nigeria Country Coordinator, Stuart Alexander Zimble, said malnutrition remains 1 of the starring causes of decease among children nether the property of 5 successful Kebbi State.

“Malnutrition remains alarmingly wide successful Kebbi State and is simply a starring origin of decease among children nether five. Authorities and humanitarian actors indispensable urgently summation their enactment to forestall further avoidable deaths,” helium said.

Data cited by the organisation from UNICEF bespeak that an estimated 30 newborns and 100 children nether 5 dice regular successful Kebbi State, with astir fractional of those deaths linked to malnutrition.

The concern is further compounded by precocious rates of stunting, malaria infections and debased vaccinati...