MALI: Malnutrition - Worrying in north, rising in south

MALI: Malnutrition - Worrying in north, rising in south:

BAMAKO/MOPTI, 10 August 2012 (IRIN) - At Koutiala reference hospital in the Sikasso region of southeastern Mali, 300 children are crammed into one room, most of them attached to drips while they receive blood transfusions to treat severe malnutrition with complications, usually malaria. “Even after several years here, I'm taken aback when I see them,” said Johanne Sekkenes, head of NGO Médecins sans Frontières in the capital, Bamako.