DPR Korea 2013: Humanitarian Needs and Priorities
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Provide nutritious food assistance to 2.4 million children, pregnant and breast-feeding women and food insecure people to reduce hunger and under-nutrition and improve dietary diversity. Concurrently, provision of agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilizer and plastic sheets) must be sustained to increase protein rich soybean and nutrient rich vegetable production and to minimise the food gap between demand and supply.
Ensure timely availability of the most life-saving essential supplies to avoid any acute crisis of vaccines (for Tuberculosis, Tetanus, Measles, Hepatitis B, and Polio) and essential medicines to offer the minimum basic health services for children and women.
Ensure timely availability of essential supplies for management of severe acute malnutrition and the micronutrient supplementation to offer the minimal basic services to children and women without interrupting the contribution to the children’s growth and development.
Reduce mortality rate from common life-threatening conditions and obstetric complications of the most vulnerable mothers or pregnant women through improved access to quality care. This includes the basic maternal care at county hospitals and ri-clinics to reduce maternal and newborn mortality, and morbidity during pregnancy, delivery and post-natal periods.
Provide access to clean water, proper sanitation and hygiene education to prevent malnutrition and to reduce incidence of diarrhoea and other diseases, especially among children in rural areas affected by malnutrition and in institutions, such as nurseries, kindergartens, orphanages and health facilities.