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The high rate of malnutrition reported among children in camps for displaced people in Sri Lanka is a cause for concern, a senior UN official says.

The UN's representative on children and armed conflict told the BBC's Sinhala service that the government should set up special feeding programmes.

Her comments come after a Sri Lankan charity said 5,000 children in the camps are malnourished.

Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN's special representative on children and armed conflict, told the BBC Sinhala Service's Saroj Pathirana that the UN hopes to send a delegation to advise the government on a range of issues relating to child welfare.

'The malnutrition rates are very high, especially among young children, and there is a need for special feeding programmes and all those kind of things in the camps for the children.

Her comments follow concern expressed by Sri Lankan charity Sarvodaya about rates of chronic malnutrition in the camps.

She added that the UN is also concerned about the plight of children separated from their families.

'The delegation is to look into whether there is enough effort being taken to reunite them with parents,' she said.

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