Severe and Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is the curse for the children. Govt of India has provision for treating these children under the care of experts through institutional care called NRC. In the district of Ara, Bhojpur of Bihar NRC was set up with the help from an NGO ( Shristi International ). The NRC was ready with all the required infrastructure but where are the SAM children? There were no data on SAM children even with the govt agency. And here comes an NGO (World Vision India) with the detail information on SAM and other malnourished children and helps start the first NRC at Bhojpur with 30 such children where the NGO is working.
Santar, a boy of 3 year old from Babangama Musshar Tola, West Gundi panchayat, Bhojpur Bihar, is from a Musshar community, mahadalit. He stands with support, emaciated, gestures with hand if he wants water, his large big eyes stares at me….. When admitted to NRC he weighed 5 kg. Mother, Batharni Devi looks helpless. NGO team had persevered to see this NRC open. Shristi International was ready with the infra-structure but where are the SAM children? Data was not available with the anganwadi and here was an NGO ready with the mild, moderate and severe data.
Just few days at the NRC and Santar is active….the miracle ingredients are the right food, right knowledge and right care. On the day of my visit he was being fed by the staff.
Later I was informed by the NGO team that as Santar showed very little improvement he was re-admitted in the fourth batch.
Long way ahead…… for us to see him recover………..
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