REPORT: Acute Malnutrition Case Management in N'Djamena, Chad (ENG)

July 26th, MSF opened an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre in N'Djamena.
MSF has also set up outpatient nutrition centres to treat acute malnutrition in N’Djamena

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VIDEO: ITFC in N'Djamena, Chad. August 2018.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF239963

Date taken / Date Recorded 02/08/2018 12:00 AM

Country Chad

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Mohammad Ghannam

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Additional Information / Shotlist KALTOUMA 1
My daughter’s sick. She’s been vomiting and has had diarrhea for a week now.

July 26th, MSF opened an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre
Our teams are treating severely acute malnourished children with medical complications

KALTOUMA 1
She can’t eat anymore. Before, I was feeding her porridge. But since she became sick, she can’t keep any food down.

Children are often in critical condition when they arrive
They are admitted to the intensive care unit

THOMAS (in French) – nurse, MSF
This is the intensive care ward, so where we admit children whose condition is critical, with severe complications.

Once stabilized, the children are transferred to another unit

THOMAS (in French)
There’s an intensive care phase where the priority is to address medical complications before tackling the nutritional problem using therapeutic food.

Economic hardship and a health workers’ strike are among the causes of the current situation.

FATIMA
My husband was made redundant.
He wasn’t paid for seven months.
We travelled south to look for work but didn’t find anything.
So we came back.
My child is better again now.
When we got here, he had bloody diarrhea.

Urgent action is needed to scale up outpatient and inpatient case management capacity.

THOMAS (in French)
Logisticians are already working on an extension, they’re building two new wards which will mean 50 more beds.

MSF has also set up outpatient nutrition centres to treat acute malnutrition in N’Djamena

Keywords

Chad

Intensive Care

Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC)

Malnutrition

Mother & Child

Severe Acute Malnutrition