Humanitarian community hopes to scale up free health services
Highlights
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A total of US$4.5 million is needed to provide free health care in some of the most-affected areas for three months.
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Some 922,000 people are displaced across CAR, with 496,731 IDPs in Bangui.
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Since 3 January, more than 108,000 children age 6 months to 15 years have been vaccinated against measles in 70 IDP sites in Bangui. A total of 18,489 children under age 5 out of 88,000 have also received oral polio vaccine.
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FAO warns of a potential food-security crisis as security situation deteriorates. The low production from the last harvest, prevailing and chronic country-wide malnutrition, and extreme poverty and inappropriate sanitation conditions are setting the stage for a full-scale food-and-nutrition security crisis should the next planting season fail.