(VOVWORLD) - Ten tons of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) has arrived at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport and will be distributed as part of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to meet the urgent needs of severely malnourished children in the flood and storm-stricken region of central Vietnam.
 (Photo: UNICEF Vietnam/Truong Viet Hung) |
In response to the devastating flood emergency in central Vietnam, UNICEF is providing life-saving relief to vulnerable children and women in the affected areas.
UNICEF is ordering a total of 60 tons of RUTF to be shipped to Vietnam in the coming weeks. The life-saving therapeutic food will be distributed to commune health centers through the National Institute of Nutrition.
An estimated over 4,000 acutely malnourished children in Vietnam will benefit every day for the next three months from this life-saving nutrition treatment.