UNICEF on Wednesday cautioned that it will not be able to continue providing lifesaving aid and protection to Rohingya children in Bangladesh without immediate additional funding supports.

Almost 60 per cent of the 582,000 refugees who have fled horrific Myanmar violence are children and the global body said, "Growing needs are far outpacing resources."

In a statement, simultaneously issued from Geneva, New York and Dhaka, the global body mentioned that as of today (18 October), UNICEF has received just 7 per cent of the $76 million required to provide emergency support to children over the next six months.

"(Without funding) We will have to stop treating and trucking water to over 40,000 people who otherwise would have no access to safe water by the end of November," the UNICEF statement reads.

"We have built 180 water points, but will not be able to build the additional 1,400 that are required to meet the needs of 350,000 people."

The UNICEF said it has installed 3,700 toilets, but without more resources, it will not be able to install another 12,000 needed by 250,000 people.

Also, it said, "We will not be able to procure supplies of ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat 15000 children suffering from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM)."

The statement pointed out that some 80,000 children will have no access to basic healthcare, and about 100,000 newly-arrived refugee children will not be immunised against measles, rubella or polio.

"We will not be able to adequately respond to a massive outbreak of water-borne disease because we will not have the trained staff and supplies," the UNICEF said adding that unaccompanied and separated children will be deprived of the case management services they desperately need.

"Rohingya children have already endured atrocities. All of them need the lifesaving basics - shelter, food, water, vaccinations, protection - not tomorrow or next week or next month, but right now," the global aid agency insisted.

It is thus appealing to donors to help fulfil these children’s most fundamental right; to survive.