Nutritional crisis in Ethiopia's Afar region

An MSF doctor attends to a child’s feeding at the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre in (ITFC) in Dupti hospital , Afar region.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB126897

Date taken / Date Recorded 01/06/2022 12:00 AM

Country Ethiopia

Detailed location Dupti hospital, Afar region

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Njiiri Karago

Copyright Njiiri Karago/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★★ (E)

Maximum Size 4240px × 2832px 2.34 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing alarming indications of a deadly and escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region, requiring an urgent scale up of the humanitarian response. In Afar, hundreds of thousands of people have fled from recent conflict only to find themselves grappling alongside host communities with drought, hunger and staggering lack of access to healthcare and clean water.

Since April, MSF has been increasing its support to Dupti Hospital, which serves a population of more than 1.1 million people including hundreds of thousands of displaced people. This year, the number of severely malnourished children admitted to the facility has already exceeded the previous year’s baseline by a factor of three to four. Patient mortality rates are staggeringly high, exceeding twenty percent in some weeks. Thirty-five children have died in the last eight weeks alone and more than two thirds of those patients died within 48 hours of admission.

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Severe Acute Malnutrition