al jazerra's tanya paige has the story. >> reporter: she is 18 months old.ix-kilograms, they should be at least nine and a half kgs. rache the first brought her to the hospital in march. when she was admitted and put on weight. but the draught means there is no food at home. so she's back. >> the skin of my baby has losts of rashes and she's feverish, we have no crops because there is not enough money to buy food of i feel very bad forker 4679 is . >> reporter: this is the words drought in 2 20 years, the government is delivering food eight but struggling too. >> it is the wish of the government to cover everybody, to assist everybody, however, i think it might not be possible to cover everybody at the same time. >> reporter: uncief says nearly a million people are affected. it's launched an appeal for $7.4 million. this hospital is on the frontline, four babies in the malmalnutrition ward have alreay died this year. during some months admissions double. >> with he do the best that we can. we refer those that we can to the local counselor so that they can a