The sad video of the little girl suffering from malnutrition weighing only 10 kilos and whose world is talking about

February 18, 2019

The images of Fatima Qoba, barely 12 years old, illustrate the extreme poverty that reigns in Yemen. They found it alive under a tree.

Video: RT

Fatima Qoba, a baby born in Yemen, became a news in the last hours before the appearance of his images that were used to trace the extreme crisis that runs through his country.

The 12-year-old girl had to be saved and taken to a clinic in Aslam because she only weighed 10 kilos, presenting a serious case of malnutrition child

Makiah al-Aslami, the head of the clinic in northwestern Yemen, said that, unfortunately, "She suffers from the most extreme malnutrition".

"All the fat reserves in your body are exhausted, there are only bones left" also badured the doctor, according to international media.

At the time of his appearance, Qoba, he lived under a tree, just like his father and his 10 brothers who had been forced to leave their homes in the border region of Saudi Arabia, escaping desperately to the attacks. in the zone.

"We do not have money to buy food.All we have, this is what our neighbors and family members have given us," said the older sister of Fatima during a dialogue with the agency. Reuters.

Yemen is considered the country with the worst and the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world at the present time, according to the United Nations, on the occasion of the civil war that has endured on its territory since 2015.

At the end of last year, the organization Save the childannounced that nearly 85,000 children under five have died of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the armed conflict.

The sad case of Fatima Qoba went around the world and the original video published by RT reaches thousands of reproductions.

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