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"Hunger Gap" Treating Malnutrition in Chad

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent medical teams to Bokoro, in Hadjer-Lamis region, Chad, in response to a malnutrition crisis. It’s the fourth time in five years. MSF set up ambulatory therapeutic feeding programmes in 10 health centres across the district. Severely malnourished children with medical complications are transferred to inpatient programme which is run by MSF at the Ministry of Health´s hospital in Bokoro town.

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An “MSF emergency malnutrition response” in September 2021 has since evolved into a long-term project to address the recurrent nutritional crises in Chad’s Hadjer Lamis region.