A medical doctor working in the department of Nutrition at Torit State Hospital is advising parent to report to the facility whenever their children fall sick.
Anena Lucy, says some parents bring their children when they are badly sick making it difficult to manage. Emmanuel Radio reports.
Lucy warns that delaying children for long when they are sick and malnourish may lead to death.
‘Don’t wait until the child is helpless energy goes down and this children are so weak to coldness and all these, this child can pass away, come when you know the child we can still help the life of this child because if you wait until the child is helpless, for us we can’t do miracle’, Lucy tells Radio Emanuel
Lucy tells parent to take care of their children against water borne diseases ahead of rainy season.
‘Cases of malaria, cases of other diarrheal diseases [are] also a bit high and those cases also are contribute to malnutrition, it is a multi factor is not just on one on multi factor,’ she explained
Lucy tells parent to prioritize feeding their children to avoid malnutrition.