OLDINE She is 2 years old and weighs 27 pounds. She is not a typical case of kwashiorkor. When her swelling went down she did not have a lot of muscle and fat loss like so many of the kids that we see. She will just be here an short
JACKENSON He is almost 5 years old and weighs 21 pounds. He was following the the outpatient program and began to have some swelling from kwashiorkor and was losing weight so his mama asked if he could be admitted for inpatient care for a few months. His father’s mental state
There were 3138 consultation done in clinic last month Of those there were 715 cases of malnutrtition 39 cases of kwashiorkor 310 injections were given and 245 patients recieved wound care There were 181 new cholera cases bring the total treated (since Nov 2010) to 7789
Eating their medika mamba 🙂 waiting to get IV’s put in…..one with a glucose level of 45 Johanne (who was 2 pounds 1o ounces) is 6 pounds 5 ounces today!!!! Jokenson-one of the few kids we have had that cannot tolerate the medika mamba. He is on milk with added
CIALINE She is 14 months old and weighs 16 pounds. She started out on our outpatient feeding program. She followed for three weeks without much change in her healing process. Her mama died last year and her papa was discouraged and asked that we keep her for a few weeks
Over the past few months we have seen a significant increase in the cases of malnutrition that we are seeing here in Cazale. While our desire is to decrease in number we have been increasing. We go through medications rather quickly with the amount of children we are caring for.
