Hospital staff say they are overstretched and desperate for help in dealing with people who have fled the worst East African drought in sixty years.
Parts of Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia have been delcared a crisis zone.
Thousands of Somalis fleeing the bruising drought in the Horn of Africa are facing a long wait to enter overcrowded camps and receive aid when they cross into neighbouring Kenya, AFP reported.
More than 300,000 in desperate need of food, water and medicine are staying at the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab in Kenya.
In June, the already overcrowded Dadaab complex in received 1,000 new refugees a day, five times more than a year ago, most of them fleeing drought in Somalia, aid workers have said.
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The BBC reports that several children are dying each day in the camp - with chronic malnutrition the principle killer.
