UNITED NATIONS BORDER RELIEF OPERATION
distributed to border Khmer populations in the form of workers payments
and this provides a useful additional input of foodstuffs to the camps.
With the introduction during 1985 of the "dry-pack" system
for supplementary feeding of vulnerable groups and the encouragement of
a closer relationship between the supplementary feeding operations and
the Mother and Child Health programmes, we have seen an encouraging
overall decrease in the malnutrition rates amongst the border Khmer.
This trend has been recently confirmed by a nutrition survey in the
Samet section of Site II, where the overall rate of malnutrition
amongst children under 5 years of age ( i.e. those under
weight for height ) has dropped from 4.85 percent in May 1985 to
percent in June this year.
80
percent
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On the health front there have also been some notable
improvements.
For example, the number of malaria cases reported so far
this year is only 20 percent of those recorded during the same period
This decline is largely due to the relocation of camps to
last year.
new locations unfavourable for the vectors which transmit the disease.
Another factor
MSP
is the strictly controlled use of single dose
"Fansimef" } as a partial replacement for the seven day
quinine/tetracycline treatment.
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now
A WHO-UN Health mission visited the Thai-Kampuchean border in
January-February this year and has prepared a second Progress Report on
the health situation amongst the border Khmer. This report is
being printed in final form and it is hoped that it will form the basis
for the planning of our future health services to the displaced
population.
Copies of the
final
report will
soon
be sent
to
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