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This mother received support at the center with a breast-feeding problem. She was only able to nurse her baby on one breast as the other nipple was inverted after being shown how to correct the problem she has been able to feed her child, keeping healthy and attending our other workshops.
Items of food, soap, tooth paste and tooth brush being given out to patients in malnutrition ward by our coordinator Rosaria Martins da Cruz.
Workshop on Nutrition being conducted at the HIAM-Health Centre
Grinding machine donated by Rotary Aust. Local beans are used as the basis of our Supplementary Feeding Program. A combination of corn and mung beans ground to a fine powder then cooked in a little oil then salt and sugar added to taste.
Many times malnutrition is not identified in time, because it can look as if the child is actually plump. There are two kinds of Malnutrition Kwashiorkor, this is the situation with the child in this picture, large head bloated body the signs to us are the blue mottled pattern on his legs. The other form is Marasmus, which is obvious by the wasting and stunting of the body.
Moderate malnutrition: without monitoring and supplementary feeding he will be in a hospital ward in a month. He already has a chest infection.
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