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Management of Kamal Adwan Hospital on North Gaza said a total of 250 children were diagnosed with symptoms of malnutrition.
The hospital said another child died of malnutrition raising the total this week to four amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid, the health centre’s director Hossam Abu Safiya announced.
“We lost a child in the hospital’s nursery department in recent hours due to malnutrition,” Hossam Abu Safiya said in a news conference held in northern Gaza.
“This is the fourth child to be killed in the hospital during the last week due to malnutrition,” he added.
Abu Safiya said that over the past two weeks, the hospital had diagnosed over 250 children with symptoms of malnutrition, warning that Gaza “is confronting a genuine health crisis that initially affects children and could extend to adults.”
He highlighted that recent premature births at the hospital have been attributed to maternal malnutrition.
Source TRT