World Health Organization demands help for starving Ethiopians
Submitted by Anna Tomova on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 12:16.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on the international community Friday to help 4.6 million Ethiopians currently in need of urgent food relief.
"The health of millions of Ethiopians is worsening by the day, and the international community must act to support the country's government to ease this terrible suffering," said Dr Eric Laroche, assistant director general for the WHO's Health Action in Crises Cluster.
The WHO said that malnutrition and outbreaks of disease such as watery diarrhoea, cerebrospinal meningitis and measles were combining to put millions of people at risk.
A drought has compounded the effects of the global food security crisis to create the situation, the WHO said.
The WHO is working with the Ethiopian government and other organizations to provide food and medical supplies.
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