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Uganda: Five Starve to Death in Kumi District
Stephen Otage
23 August 2011
Just how ready is the government to handle hunger is a question that has no immediate answer for the moment.
Five people, who reportedly included four elderly people and a three-year-old child have died in Agaria parish Mukongoro Sub-county in Kumi District due to what authorities suspect to have been starvation.
The District Health Officer, Dr Julius Mugweri, said he suspects the five died of starvation because they did not have access to food, adding that the child had severe malaria and anemia and due to delayed access to medical assistance, died.
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Stephen Otage
23 August 2011
Just how ready is the government to handle hunger is a question that has no immediate answer for the moment.
Five people, who reportedly included four elderly people and a three-year-old child have died in Agaria parish Mukongoro Sub-county in Kumi District due to what authorities suspect to have been starvation.
The District Health Officer, Dr Julius Mugweri, said he suspects the five died of starvation because they did not have access to food, adding that the child had severe malaria and anemia and due to delayed access to medical assistance, died.
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