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DIRECTIVE BY THE MINISTER
OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND
POPULATION
In response to the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen that is one of the
highest in the world, and considering that this type of malnutrition is contributing to
more than half of under five mortality in Yemen, Ministry of Public Health and
Population in collaboration with country offices of United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) and World Health Organization has led the finalization and publication of this
guidelines that describes the management of severely malnourished children and adults
at inpatients wards and outpatients facilities. It is a result of consultancy workshop held
in Sana’a on October 2008, attended by local expertises and facilitated by Dr. Michael
Henry Nevin Golden, the emeritus professor at Department of Medicine and
Therapeutics of University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Ministry of Public Health and Population hereby approves this document as a national
guideline for the treatment of acute severe malnutrition that mandatory should be used
by health staff involved in providing care for malnourished patients in Republic of
Yemen, which comes under the guidance of political leadership, government and the
national health polices. Therefore, this guideline is to be used and practiced at all health
facilities in both public and private sectors effectively from January 2009.
Prof. Abdulkareim Yehia Rasae
Minister of Public Health and Population
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