Shrikrishna from Chadida Village: Overcoming Malnutrition, Achieving Health

Shrikrishna son of Munnibai from village Chadida aged 24 months has 3 more brothers and 2 sisters apart from the parents. The family of 7 has to struggle to make the ends meet. It lives in a thatched home and has 3 acres of unirrigated land that hardly produces enough grains to feed the family for the year. They have to seasonally distress migrate to earn the livelihood. The employment opportunity under public employment scheme too was not enough for the family. Sreekrishna was admitted to Konku-Puchiku project in September 2013. The child weighed 7.300 kilograms and thus moderate acute malnourished (MAM). The project team regularly visited the family, counselled the mother on better care and feeding and also provided the JOG support. The Ambulatory care provided the diagnosis and treatment of sicknesses the child had seasonally. Now the child weighs 10.200 kilograms while the MUAC improved to 13.2 centimeters. The child has graduated to normalcy.