UNICEF hands over supplies for dzud affected households
As over 65 000 households are affected by severe winter conditions across Mongolia, UNICEF sends out nutrition packages for the most vulnerable including children and pregnant women.
UNICEF hands over supplies for dzud affected households. As over 65 000 households are affected by severe winter conditions across Mongolia, UNICEF sends out nutrition packages for the most vulnerable including children and pregnant women. Over 260 000 people are affected by harsh winter condition known as Dzud disaster in Mongolia. In response to the Dzud disaster, UNICEF handed over nutrition packages to Ministry of Health for children 6-59 months old and multiple micronutrient supplements for pregnant and lactating women in affected areas. UNICEF, Ministry of Health and the National Centre for Public Health are working in partnership to ensure that 26,116 boys and girls under 5 and 15,800 pregnant and lactating mothers in 158 soums in 17 provinces affected by Dzud have access to Multiple Micronutrient Powder (MNPs), nutrition screening for the identification of cases of acute malnutrition for referral for lifesaving treatment; and nutrition counseling, with a focus on infant and child feeding and care practices to the parents of children under two years old and pregnant and lactating women. These interventions, amounting to US$ 339,000 addresses both immediate life-saving and other mid-term needs of the affected children and women. “In any emergency, women and children are the most vulnerable. Children are especially vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. That’s why one of UNICEF’s foremost priorities in emergencies is to prevent death and malnutrition amongst affected vulnerable groups: infants, children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers” said Roberto Benes, UNICEF Mongolia Representative.
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