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KENYA, Dadaab Crisis Situation in IFO outskirts
Peter Lowet Team Leader Ifo Outskirts
We set up this health post in the 23 of May. This was following the new arrivals from Somali,
and actually when we came around, we found that the situation was real. We had
many people arriving both in Dadaab camps, that is Hagadera, IFO and Dagahaley.
And we looked at the magnitude. In the IFO outskirts it was big. This is why we started
up this health facility.
Regarding the rate of malnutrition, I would say it is high.
When we began the clinic, we are seeing 10 patients, and now we are seeing 30 per
day. And just in the past 5 weeks, we have about
600 malnourished children admitted in the program.
So this is already telling you that the number of malnourished children in the new
arrivals, this is high.
Alexzidre Izart, field coordinator, IFO medical post
We still have 1200 new arrivals per day. So I mean then, our capacity to provide secondary
health care to these refugees is quite tough, verily impossible.
And if we look at the nutrition, the size taken inside the hospital is bigger and bigger.
So soon, it will be important to have probably a new building just for the nutrition, and
keep the hospital for other reasons.
Peter Lowet
The moderate malnourished children that we saw earlier are now coming to severe
malnourished. Despite the therapeutic feeds that we give,
these children, the new arrivals need to be registered and be given the rations to cushion
them from going from moderate to severe malnutrition.