Children badly affected by floods: Unicef

He said this after a visit to Sylhet, Sunamganj and Brahmanbaria recently.

Many were showing visible signs of suffering from Vitamin B deficiency and living in makeshift shelters around their former homes, he added.

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'A large number of tubewells were also submerged and these will have to be cleaned and disinfected otherwise we will have widespread cases of diarrhoea,' he said.

Unicef has received five million water purification tablets and over 2000 boxes of syringes. Another 8,800 vials of measles vaccine will arrive in Bangladesh by Monday. The disease can spread rapidly in displaced populations that do not have adequate shelter or food.