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Health workers at a clinic in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, wrapped a color-coded malnutrition tape around a child's arm. The reading indicated severe malnutrition. Nearby, another child was weighed as mothers wait with sick children.The scenes reflected findings from a survey conducted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Somalia's Ministry of Health: child hunger is on the rise. - REUTERS
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00:11my daughter is seven years old and was born with a disability she had been sick for about three
00:17months i brought her to the hospital being carried and i didn't know what was wrong with her
00:22she is now receiving treatment in total we went we surveyed 888 household
00:29and in this we found that at least one in every second child is malnourished and of which at least
00:35one in every four child is has severe acute malnutrition
00:46the beauty of the cases that that that we are seeing in the hospital like 90 percent of these
00:52malnourished children they are present with medical complications that that that that require
00:59specialized medical treatment and we are running out of space and our team on the ground they have
01:06to make a very difficult decisions every day who to admit and who to discharge
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