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MSF hands over therapeutic feeding to NGO

[DRC] Mother with small child, feeding milk mixture to daughter IRIN
Congo (DR): Mother feeding milk mixture to daughter
    NAIROBI

    Medecins Sans Frontieres has handed over some of its therapeutic feeding programmes in and around the northeastern city of Kisangani to a local nongovernmental organisation (NGO).

    MSF, which said it had effected the handover last week, did not name the NGO. MSF said it started its therapeutic feeding programmes in December 1998 and had treated over 20,000 malnourished children.

    In May and June 2000, it added, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo had "led to fierce hostilities" between Uganda and Rwanda in central Kisangani. "At that time, the food programme was treating 2,500 children. At present, the food situation in and around the city has improved, and MSF is concentrating on the urgent shortage of medical facilities in the surrounding districts," MSF said.

    Despite a report on 19 December describing the health situation in the Congo as catastrophic, MSF said that in light of the developing nutritional situation in pockets of the country, it had handed over supervision to government sections, thereby to "bring increased focus to the needy health care situation".

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