The company's catalog currently offers over 50,000 baby products, including feeding supplies, gear, toys, books, clothing, nursery items, and of course, diapers.
Additionally, it is contributing to the replenishment of child feeding supplies for these hospital feeding programmes.
Therapeutic feeding supplies were given to more than 95,000 children with severe acute malnutrition.
Among families purchasing feeding supplies, pharmacies (32%), medical supply companies (17%), and clinics (18%) were the principal sources.
Some families reported paying $500 or more for medical foods (4%), modified low-protein foods (5%), dietary supplements (2%), and feeding supplies (3%).
So far this month, the child rights' agency has brought in enough supplementary feeding supplies for 65,000 children in the drought affected regions of Southern Somalia.
The loss of some 246 tons of preventive nutritional products and 640 tons of therapeutic feeding supplies follows the theft and destruction of many other humanitarian supplies and communications equipment at a key UNICEF compound in Jowhar three months ago.
Although 99%percentt of the children in our survey had some type of health-care coverage, the insurance often did not provide complete coverage for medical foods, modified low-protein foods, supplements, or feeding supplies necessary for management of an IMD.
OOP spending accounted for 11% of medical foods payment sources, 26% of supplement sources, 33% of feeding supplies payment sources, and ~60% of payment sources for modified low-protein foods.
Some relief assistance – including water bladders, therapeutic feeding supplies, maize and rice, oral rehydration salts, emergency health kits, plastic sheeting and mosquito nets – is starting to trickle in from the Kenyan Government, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations.
