Diary from Darfur

 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/216872/397462f62cd9e00e13ddd4bb
69fc0618.htm

 

Mairi Maguire, a Red Cross nurse, supervises a supplementary feeding centre
being run by the British/Australian Red Cross in a camp for over 100,000
people who have been displaced by fighting to the remote town of Gereida, in
South Darfur. This is her diary.

 

Monday 7th May 

I saw a six-month-old boy this morning. He's called Musa. His mother is
giving him breast milk - and water to drink. The breast milk is good - but
if you quench a child's thirst with water, then he takes in less milk than
he needs. Besides which, at six months old, a child needs to be beginning to
take solid food. This wee boy weighed much less than he should. We advised
the mother to breastfeed him as often as she could - not even to wait until
he was crying for food, but to offer him the breast regularly.We also gave
her a ration of our famous 'premix' (corn, soya, oil, and sugar). We'll keep
an eye on him over the next few weeks and hope that he improves rapidly.

 

(see link for full diary)

 

Janice Reynolds


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