The Gombe State Government has established more Centres for the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) to be able to attend to more of malnourished children in the state.

It was gathered women were seen trooping into the facility to access services for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in their children at Malam Sidi in Kwami Local Government Area where one of the CMAM centres was recently established.

The Nutrition Focal Person for Kwami Local Government Area, Jamilatu Ahmed Waklili, said that in just a little over four weeks when the centre began activities, they received 50 clients but are expecting no fewer than 350 parents coming with their malnourished children to access the services for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition.

She lamented that they are faced with challenges which include lack of enough thermometers, timers, infant weighing scales and lacking conducive environment for the comfort of the clients.

The focal added that “we don’t have many thermometers, timers, infant weighing scales and comfortable seats for the clients. We need more staff as we have only five that are trained and most times we stand to do our work”.

Notwithstanding the challenges faced at the facility, she said that she along with the clients were happy for the establishment of the centre in Malam Sidi and some others across Kwami Local Government Area.

Furthermore she stated that “we were referring an uncountable number of clients to Gombe, but with the commencement of this programme here, I am particularly happy as well as the clients who are coming from their various communities.”