Word: diarrheas
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...that MSS was double-dipping on government funding, taking money from two sources for the same group of children. Key documents on child admissions were missing. Children listed at one unit did not exist, while children in other units had no records. Many children were neglected, undernourished and had diarrhea...
...arrived at Kuyera, four children died. There were four more the next day. Hundreds queued with their parents in the rain outside the gates, waiting to be weighed and measured. Inside, children were sectioned by age and urgency. Each were given red and green plastic bowls for diarrhea and vomit. On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull. When I next saw him, he was trussed up the blanket that had become his death shroud, lying on a slab...
...government's reaction is startling: the first Salmonella Saintpaul victim fell ill on April 16, but the FDA didn't announce the tomato link until June 3. Williams says part of the problem identifying salmonella outbreaks is that a lot of victims don't see the symptoms - diarrhea, fever, vomiting - as sufficiently severe to warrant a visit to the doctor, and so they go undiagnosed. "There may be a delay in reporting outbreaks because people do not have a stool specimen tested," he says. Officials have not yet identified an infected tomato, and because of the fruit's short shelf...
...them died. But Lemukol maintains some optimism. "The outcome of these children, provided they come on time, is really good," he says. To survive, all they need is to arrive at St. Kizito before an opportunistic infection sets in - more often than not, they already have malaria or diarrhea - and then get enough good food, which the hospital can provide. (St. Kizito is funded mostly by grants and donations from U.N. agencies and private citizens, plus the Ugandan government.) Still, the fight against malnutrition is not as simple as handing out food to the sickest, as Lemukol...
...skyrocket. Already, disease is beginning to stalk makeshift refugee camps set up in monasteries and schools. In Laputta, 58 refugee camps have been set up for tens of thousands of dazed villagers who have nowhere else to go; the local hospital reports that one-quarter of new patients have diarrhea, a potential harbinger of killer epidemics. A Rangoon doctor says his hospital has run out of fully trained medical staff and is now sending interns to the disaster scene. International health officials warn that as many people could perish in the aftermath of the storm as from the cyclone itself...