According to freelance journalist María Emilia Jorge, writing for Fox News Latino, 66 per cent of the children admitted this year to J. M. de los Ríos are nursing babies, according to hospital records. And the consequences of this are not only dire, but irreversible.
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Dr Soto said: ‘If an adult suffers from malnutrition, it will not affect his brain and development so much as it would a kid in the first 1,000 days of life, then they will have issues with memory, concentration, school problems’.
In the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state, Maria del Carmen Chourio, a five-year-old girl with cerebral palsy weighed just 11 pounds until she was admitted to Chiquinquirá Hospital thanks to the support of the Angeles Chiquinquireños Foundation.
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