Mutomo hospital. Kitui. Kenya. Department of Pediatrics, Hospital of Mutomo. Mothers take their children to the outer room. Oppo
Mutomo hospital. Kitui. Kenya. Department of Pediatrics, Hospital of Mutomo. Mothers take their children to the outer room. Opportunistic infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, etc. are served here, as well as problems of malnutrition. Mutomo Hospital is in the Kitui district, which has been hit hard by five years of drought. Rivers have dried up, crops destroyed, and the people worn down by hunger. Among the most affected have been those with HIV and Aids. Although life-saving drugs are cheap and available, the small food and medical costs necessary to be able to take them are often too much. “The anti-Aids drugs don’t work well without good nutrition,” said the doctor. “People have not been eating day after day.
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