Barely able to see over the third station of the Supplemental Feeding Program Clinic, a Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) initiated program designed to help malnourished children, Farid, an 11-year-old Afghan boy from Farah City, watches the nurses review his medical chart to ensure Farid doesn’t have any additional medical concerns before he moves onto station four where he will receive his Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the week, Nov. 14, 2009. The program, located at Farah Hospital, is available for 6-month-old babies to 5-year-old children. The criterion for malnutrition
Barely able to see over the third station of the Supplemental Feeding Program Clinic, a Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) initiated program designed to help malnourished children, Farid, an 11-year-old Afghan boy from Farah City, watches the nurses review his medical chart to ensure Farid doesn’t have any additional medical concerns before he moves onto station four where he will receive his Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the week, Nov. 14, 2009. The program, located at Farah Hospital, is available for 6-month-old babies to 5-year-old children. The criterion for malnutrition is established by the World Health Organization and uses a child’s height and weight compared to established standards of deviation.
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