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2 400 kids admitted for severe wasting treatment

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Unicef is focusing on intensifying efforts to prevent all forms of malnutrition, in particular child wasting, through expanding the multi-sectoral care group network, and this has started in five of the 29 high-priority districts with funding from CERF and in partnership with World Vision.

By Stella MadzivanyikaSTAFF WRITERmadzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says over 2 400 children were admitted this year in various hospitals across the country for severe wasting treatment. Severe wasting, also known as severe acute malnutrition, is caused by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of diseases, including diarrhoea, measles and malaria,…

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