{"id":31275,"date":"2019-01-31T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31275"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:23:38","slug":"who-children-babies-dying-from-hypothermia-at-camp-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31275","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Children, babies dying from hypothermia at camp in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"108.44368987\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died in a teeming camp in northeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria <\/a>over the past eight weeks, mainly due to hypothermia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The camp&#8217;s population increased significantly after about 23,000 people fleeing fighting in <span class=\"st\"><em><\/em>Deir Az Zor<\/span> between <span>the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/isis-isil.html\">ISIL<\/a><span>, also known as ISIS) group<\/span> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a>-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance have arrived at al-Hol camp during the period, WHO said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The situation in al-Hol camp is heartbreaking. Children are dying from hypothermia as their families flee to safety,&#8221; Elizabeth Hoff, WHO representative in Syria, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a> agency appealed for unhindered access to the camp, saying the situation has become &#8220;critical&#8221; for 33,000 people, mainly women and children, now living in bitterly cold winter conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Many displaced had walked for days or travelled in open trucks, arriving malnourished and exhausted following &#8220;years of deprivation&#8221; living under control of ISIL, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of new arrivals have been forced to spend several nights in the camp&#8217;s open-air reception and screening areas, without tents, blankets or heating,&#8221; the WHO added.<\/p>\n<p>WHO-supported teams are working in the camp to screen new arrivals, support vaccination and refer severely malnourished children to a hospital in al-Hasakah, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Humanitarian access to the camp and surrounding roads is hampered by bureaucratic obstacles and security constraints,&#8221; it added, appealing to all parties to provide unhindered access for life-saving aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation in the camp is now critical. Its population has tripled in size (from 10,000 to almost 33,000 people) in less than two months,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died in a teeming camp in northeastern Syria over the past eight weeks, mainly due to hypothermia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The camp&#8217;s population increased significantly after about 23,000 people fleeing fighting in Deir Az Zor between the Islamic State of Iraq&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}