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In the drought-stricken Karamoja region of Uganda - an east African country slightly smaller than Oregon, just west of Kenya - St. Kizito is where malnourished children are brought to get better. Locals say this hospital in the town of Matany is the only good one for perhaps 100 miles: no...
Between July 2007 and early May this year, hospital superintendent Dr. James Lemukol saw nearly 300 children at the center, and about 60 of 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...
The key problem for medical staff is that malnutrition is a condition that resembles plague, rather than, say, cancer: its victims suffer en masse, not one at a time. By the time a program like the one at St. Kizito begins receiving patients, odds are good that the food shortage...
On average, it takes about 28 days before children become healthy enough to go home. Santina has already been here eight weeks; the rest of her family has been left at home with Santina's husband. But he's out all day herding the family cattle and goats, so domestic...
Santina gently rocks her one-year-old daughter, Alaper. Despite the extended stay at the hospital, Santina says she is grateful. "I appreciate one thing for sure," she says. "My child looks better than when she arrived." Two months ago, Alaper weighed just over half the normal weight for her...