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Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe

After three years of consecutive droughts, people in the south-east of Madagascar, called ‘Grand Sud’, are facing one of the worst nutritional and food crisis on record in the region. The latest data from the authorities and its partners and from the Integrated food security Phase Classification (IPC) show a catastrophic situation, with some 1.13 million people out of the 2.7 million people analysed facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) during the current period (April - September 2021), of which nearly 14,000 people are in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). It’s the first time it happens since the IPC system was introduced in Madagascar in 2016.
The Amboasary district is the most affected. That’s where MSF began setting up mobile clinics since late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care. Our team has screened over 12,000 people so far and found catastrophic global acute malnutrition rates averaging 28% among children under five years old, well above the emergency threshold of 15%. We see entire families suffering from malnutrition, with virtually no access to food and income after exhausting their usual coping mechanisms and selling all their goods. Scattered over large semi-arid areas, people walk hours and hours to access free healthcare provided by our clinics.

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Title Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSBSTO16753

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Date taken / Date Recorded 27/04/2021 12:00 AM

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Date taken / Date Recorded 27/04/2021 12:00 AM