His mom died in a car accident several months ago. He has 5 sisters and 2 brothers. One other sibling died from a fever. His dad leaves for weeks at a time and leaves all the kids with the older sisters. They are still teenagers trying to go to school each day. The oldest had to quit school to stay home and take care of the kids. It is a difficult situation for all of them. We admitted him for inpatient care and the sisters are going to finish with their school exams and then try to find their dad or other family members that can help them. They live in a 1 room home made of cinder block and tin. They do not have running water in their home or a flush toliet, but do have an outhouse. They buy their water from a vendor near their home. He has been have a fever and diarrhea for 2 weeks now. He is 9 months old and weighs 14 pounds. They traveled 1 hour by motorcycle to arrive at the clinic.
She is 5 years old and weighed 27 pounds. After her edema went down from her kwashiorkor she lost 6 pounds. She has 1 living sister and 4 brothers. She has 1 siblings that died from fever. The family are farmers and grown beans, yams and corn in their gardens. The family lives in a 2 room home made of clay, rocks and tin. They do not have running water in their home or a flush toliet, but do have an outhouse. They get their water from a source that is about a 20 minute walk from their home. Mistaline has been losing weight for about 5 months now. She started showing signs of kwashiorkor about 2 months ago. Her family gave her natural medicines for the edema and when she continued to get worse they brought her to the clinic. They traveled 4 hours by foot, motorcycle and taxi to arrive at the clinic. She was started on the F-75 therapeutic milk and then graduated to the medika mamba program.
She is 3 months old and weighs 9 pounds. She has 1 living sister and brother. There was another sibling born before her that died. Many of her family and neighbors told her that her breast milk was bad and that is what killed the child. For that reason she did not breastfeed Miachouda. She has been feeding her baby food and flour water since she was born. She started showing signs of kwashiorkor about 1 week ago. The family of 7 lives in a one room home home that they rent. They do not have running water at their home, or a flush toliet but do have an outhouse. They purchase their water from a vehicle that goes around and sells to people. They traveled 3 hours by motorcycle and taxi to arrive at the clinic.
She was admitted for inpatient care so that she could get daily dressing changes on a wound on her leg. It had been there for 3 weeks and was getting worse and turning black. Although she is not malnourished she is on the medika mamba program to help her wound heal.
She is 18 months old and weighed 18 pounds when admitted. After she lost her water weight from her edema, she weighted 14 pounds. Her mama died when she was 16 days old. Her papa came with her each month for the first 8 months of her life. During that time RHFH provided infant formula for her each month. When she was 9 months old her dad took her to his parents house and left her there for them to care for her. He did not return for her appointment to receive infant formula. He moved to a new town. He was visiting Berline once a month. He noticed that she began losing weight and then developed kwashiorkor. They traveled 4 hours by motorcycle and taxi to arrive at the clinic. She was started on the F-75 therapeutic milk and then graduated to the medika mamba program.