ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition hits children hardest
ROPHI, OROMIYA, 28 May 2008 (IRIN): Genetu Dekebos children were on the verge of starvation at the time she decided to seek treatment at Rophi therapeutic feeding centre in southern Ethiopias Oromiya regional state.
– We could no longer find enough food and were eating one meal a day, the 35-year-old mother of four from Serraro woreda (district) in West Arsi zone, said on 26 May, adding: – The children became weak and I saw my neighbours child die.
Five months earlier, Genetu had delivered her fourth boy, and she was yet to fully recover from the effects of that pregnancy. – We have been here for two weeks receiving treatment. The one with swollen legs is now much better, she told IRIN at the centre.
Her children were among a few hundred at the tented centre, located in a remote area about 350 km south of the capital, Addis Ababa. The centre is managed by the medical charities Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Greece and the Missionaries of Charity.
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