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How Parents Struggle To Get Their Underweight Children Treated In Palghar
Palghar, Maharashtra: Three-year old Gauri Sapta from Dohrepada in Maharashtra’s Jawhar has made at least 15 trips to the Jawhar Kutir hospital in the last three years. Each time, she spends over a week there to be nourished back to health. The ideal weight for a girl of her age is 12-13 kg. Gauri, however, weighs less than 5 kg. This time, her ...
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28% Kids Found Underweight At Health Camps In Maharashtra's Rural Palghar
Thane: Palghar district in Maharashtra is grappling with severe child malnutrition, a survey has shown. During the recent health camps, nearly 28 per cent children were found to be severely underweight in tribal-dominated Mokhada taluka in the rural Palghar district. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant visited the camps held at five villages in the...
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Little Girls Bear the Brunt in India's Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition
When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in Bihar, doctors who treated the abandoned new-born girl knew that nursing her back to health would not be easy.
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How Parents Struggle To Get Their Underweight Children Treated In Palghar
Palghar, Maharashtra: Three-year old Gauri Sapta from Dohrepada in Maharashtra’s Jawhar has made at least 15 trips to the Jawhar Kutir hospital in the last three years. Each time, she spends over a week there to be nourished back to health. The ideal weight for a girl of her age is 12-13 kg. Gauri, however, weighs less than 5 kg. This time, her ...
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28% Kids Found Underweight At Health Camps In Maharashtra's Rural Palghar
Thane: Palghar district in Maharashtra is grappling with severe child malnutrition, a survey has shown. During the recent health camps, nearly 28 per cent children were found to be severely underweight in tribal-dominated Mokhada taluka in the rural Palghar district. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant visited the camps held at five villages in the...
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Little Girls Bear the Brunt in India's Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition
When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in Bihar, doctors who treated the abandoned new-born girl knew that nursing her back to health would not be easy.
