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Home > Zimbabwe: Bulawayo witnesses 43 deaths from malnutrition

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Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 03:00
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Conflict & emergencies [2]
Issue Number: 
118 [3]
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Forty-three people died in Bulawayo in April alone because of malnutrition, according to an official council report on the health situation in Zimbabwe’s second largest city. The city’s director of health services, Rita Dlodlo, said in the report – a copy of which was shown to The Daily News – that most of the deaths were among children in the five to 14-year age group.

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Human Security [4]
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Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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