web NIAMEY/ZINDER, 24 March 2010 (IRIN) - Most government health centres in Niger are ill-equipped to absorb the expected influx of malnourished children, according to the Ministry of Health. The government estimates at least 200,000 more children may require treatment for severe malnutrition following a bad harvest which has put some two million people at immediate risk of severe hunger. After the country’s last agriculture crisis in late 2004, international NGOs helped care for wasting...
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