{"id":87143,"date":"2026-03-31T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87143"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:09:18","slug":"malnourished-children-and-desperate-mothers-the-healthcare-facility-on-the-frontline-of-nigerias-hunger-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/malnourished-children-and-desperate-mothers-the-healthcare-facility-on-the-frontline-of-nigerias-hunger-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Malnourished children and desperate mothers: the healthcare facility on the frontline of Nigeria\u2019s hunger crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZH1KW.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A supervising doctor updates records at the Alima medical facility in Kaita. Photograph: Terna Iwar\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zuwaira Hanafi stood in shock as four doctors rushed past her to enter the ward where her eight-month-old daughter, Hambali, lay semiconscious. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/malnourished-children-and-desperate-mothers-the-healthcare-facility-on-the-frontline-of-nigeria-s-hunger-crisis\/ar-AA1ZH9ls?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=48e49085a4c145d3b476bc6c72427f84&amp;ei=20\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Zuwaira Hanafi stood in shock as four doctors rushed past her to enter the ward where her eight-month-old daughter, Hambali, lay semiconscious&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hunger-Bornu.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87144,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87143\/revisions\/87144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}