Caption: Mother and the twins
Nnalongo is a 31 year old mother from Alutura village, Lurujo parish, Lobule sub-county in Koboko district. She has Male twins; Kato and Wasswa. Kato was found to be suffering from moderate acute malnutrition.
In June, Nnalongo the mother and Ssalongo the father realized that Kato was constantly losing weight, they took him to Lurujo HCII because they were uncertain of what Kato was suffering from. However, they were transferred to Lobule HCIII as they were unable to handle his condition. They were transferred to Koboko hospital where the child was admitted.
The mother-in-law advised her to feed Kato on a balanced diet. She did this until she was told that a new organization called AFOD had come to the district to handle cases of malnourished children.
When AFOD intervened, Kato had brown hair and severe diarrhoea with a MUAC of 12.0cm and 5.3kgs. On the 27th of July 2017, Kato and Wasswa were enrolled on Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) in Lurujo HCII.
After two weeks of monitoring, he had deteriorated to 11.7cm and 5.0kgs as he had suffered from malaria with severe diarrhoea. He was then treated and added 3kgs of CSB++ for two more weeks.
During the growth monitoring visit on 26th/September/2017, Kato had a weight of 6kgs and 12.4cm of the MUAC. Wasswa was however removed from the programme as both his MUAC and weight had increased to 14cm and 7.2kgs respectively. In the last monitoring visit, Kato had a MUAC of 13.4 CM and Wasswa a MUAC of 12.9 CM and have finally been discharged as shown below.
Caption: AFOD Staff taking Wasswa MUAC test
