malnourished

Back at Amusait Hospital, medics are feeding a number of malnourished infants through tubes.

An investigation by British newspaper the Times found that two refugees living in a camp in Kenya were flown to Europe only to be told they were too malnourished to appear on the runway.

He was taken to Alder Hey Children's' Hospital in Liverpool, where medical staff found he was malnourished, but never regained consciousness.

"We absolutely recommend breastfeeding, even when mothers are malnourished unless they are acutely malnourished," she says.

On a recent visit to a facility treating malnourished children younger than 5, she said she saw kids who were “walking skeletons like I haven’t seen in a decade.”