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“We’re seeing malnourished children struggling to regain weight after weeks of treatment in our mobile clinics,” says Bérengère Guais, MSF’s head of emergency programmes. “The medical care we provide, and the half-rations different organisations have been distributing, are not enough to reverse the trend in a setting where there is so little access to food. “A massive increase in emergency food assistance is an absolute priority,” says Guais.
“The condition of malnourished children is exacerbated by a number of associated diseases, principally malaria – which affects 22% of our young patients – respiratory infections (18%) and diarrhoea (14%).”
