Parsa, Feb. 9 -- Arbun Khatun, a resident of Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality-4 in Parsa district, took her ailing son Jafar Hussein to Narayani Hospital in Birgunj on January 20. The hospital referred the one-year-old, who had pneumonia, to the Nutrition Rehabilitation Home as he was also found to be suffering from severe malnutrition.

The malnourished baby was immediately admitted to the NRH set up on the hospital premises. The boy should have a body weight above 8.2 kg for his age but he was just 6 kg. He is getting treatment at the nutrition home now. Hussein is now 10 kg and looks healthy.

"My mother-in-law instructed me not to feed any solid foods until the boy is one-and-a-half years old. So I just fed him milk. Here, at the nutri...