Nigeria, July 18 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams in Nigeria have recorded a surge in malnutrition cases in the country's north, raising major concerns over potentially devastating and long-term consequences for the children who survive.
At an MSF-supported inpatient therapeutic feeding center in Maiyama General Hospital in Kebbi state, 2-year-old Ummul Khairun Mohammed is receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition. Due to developmental delays caused by her condition, she is still unable to walk.
The little girl is one of thousands of children under 5 years old currently being treated by MSF teams across northern Nigeria during the country's annual peak malnutrition season. For several days-sometimes ...