At least 65 Children Admitted At Wau Hospital Due To Malnutrition An expert on malnutrition cases at Wau Teaching hospital, Dr. Rose Ajak has said at least 65 children admitted in the hospital between July and August are suffering from malnutrition. 31 August 2017
By James Deng Dimo WAU, 31 August 2017 [Gurtong] – Ajak said in May and April, Wau teaching hospital treated more than 70 children of the ages 6 months to 5 years mainly from the from nearby States and Wau itself. She said last months, 2 children died of malnutrition. “We are admitting children from all nearby States. Last month, we had like 78 cases treated and being discharged to complete their treatment outside but this month the levels are a bit lower because you can see some beds are now empty, usually, you can see these beds are almost full and up to now we have only 65 admissions,” said Ajak. She said most malnutrition cases are caused by lack of feeding, including poor management by their mothers in breastfeeding. She said most cases the hospital is now receiving are through poor feeding of children due to lack of food nutrition.. Ajak said UNICEF and other State organizations are now providing Wau teaching hospital with nutritious foods including peanut, milk and biscuits. She said Wau State has 8 to 10 centres meant to deal with the malnutrition cases. Fia Munsur a woman whose child of 6 years has been admitted at the hospital said her child lacks enough food. “My child developed malnutrition due to lack of food, the hunger is now facing the whole country, the condition of people is now worsening, to get food and feed the children now has become very difficult and this is why our children are now suffering,” she said. Most families can only afford one meal a day. Posted in: Home, Health -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14op0jxGE80Cq_P2_jF%3D1temc46GQ7RkO6X7S4RH0PwZRgQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
