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CARITAS resumes operations in Mile 91

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CARITAS has resumed operations at its Mile 91 clinic, seeing an average of 50 patients per week, OCHA said in its report. At the same time, it said that MSF-Holland reported a few deaths in the area from Meningitis. For its part, WFP distributed 29 mt of food to 4,500 patients at the therapeutic and supplementary feeding centres in the town and in Yonibana, some three km to the southwest.

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