Wednesday, November 24, 2004

A toddler with Kwashiorkor's malnutrition

A toddler with Kwashiorkor's malnutrition

On Friday a toddler and his father
arrived to the Center of Hope to enter
the nutrition program. One of the
health agents in the mountains
identified this toddler had
Kwashiorkor's malnutrition. He's
lacking calories and especially protein
causing his legs and arms to swell.
These kids are at higher risk for
death. Here Anna is bathing him and
coating the many sores on his skin with
bacitracin ointment.

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