By Jeffery Sejour | Associate Director
We have two uses for the albendazole at this time.
1. We distribute it to children in our malnutrition program as well as to non-malnourished children that come in to our clinic with ‘stomach aches’ but no fevers. We have attached pictures of several children before and after treatment in our malnutrition program who also received the dewormer.
2. The second use is currently for a school where we also provide pre-packaged rice pack meals so the kids have a nutritious lunch at school. We dewormed all of the children in January and will repeat in 6 months. We intend to continue semi-annual deworming in the school. These are the children receiving the Albendazole.
This boy came to us in July 2014 with a rock hard very large abdomen. We sent him immediately to Hopital Bernard Mevs. He had a bowel obstruction with dead bowel due to worm infestation. About 80% of kids with this condition die in Haiti, but by the grace of God he is alive and doing well!
- Mickey McRoberts (Children’s Health Ministries)
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