Lucienne is 14 years old and lives with her parents deep in the mountains of Haiti. It takes them about 3 hours to walk out to the main town where there is a paved road. She is the youngest child in her family. Her parents had 12 children and 5
Job continues to recover. All his edema from his kwashiorkor is gone. Time to drink lots of formula and get little Job gaining some weight! A new child admitted today. His legs and feet are very swollen due to edema from his kwashiorkor. Delens is healing and recovering. He is
Total consults = 2829 Working days = 17 Average per day = 166 Children weighed and assessed for malnutrition = 755 Percentage of children underweight = 48% (361 kids) Percentage of severe malnutrition (-2,-3, -4 SD) = 20% (153 kids) Patients with kwashiorkor = 88 Sacks of Medika Mamba distributed
In 2009 we began using Medika Mamba. This was our first shipment of boxes of the life saving product. We began with 10 children as a test run to see how well the product worked. The results were wonderful and the kids were healing from malnutrition and serious cases of
DELENS He is 6 years old and weighs 29 pounds (his lowest weight). He was referred to us from Children’s Health Ministries. He has been losing weight for about 7 months now and just does not want to eat much. He also has a cold and cough. The day he
