One Recovers, a Thousand Get Sick

The number of malnutrition patients in eastern Indonesia is still high. For every case treated, a new one comes up.

February 7, 2006

KALEB Iwo is putting on weight. He can already go to school and play with his friends. His present condition is quite different from that of four months ago, when he could only lie helplessly at the Jayapura Regional Public Hospital. The food his body needed had to be supplied through an intravenous drip.

He weighed only 16.5 kilograms at that time, far from the ideal weight for a child of his age of 32.5 kilograms. Doctors diagnosed he was suff

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