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Slideshow - Chad: Plunging from one nutrition crisis to the next

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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