Medical Equipment for the Malnutrition Center
A leading pediatric health hub saving lives
Baghere, Senegal
A leading pediatric health hub saving lives
Baghere, Senegal
The Child Malnutrition Center in Baghere was established to address one of the region’s most urgent health crises: chronic and acute malnutrition affecting thousands of children every year, often silently and fatally.
To become fully operational, the center requires modern pediatric equipment, including diagnostic tools, incubators, ultrasound machines, refrigerators for therapeutic foods, digital scales, pediatric beds, and laboratory diagnostic materials.
The project includes the supply, installation, and commissioning of these devices, along with training for healthcare staff and the recruitment of a doctor to support the public medical team. This urgent investment aims to save lives and create a nationally recognized hub for child health.
Support the Project
Provide essential diagnostic and therapeutic tools to treat malnutrition, ensuring quality, safety, and early intervention capability.
Reduce mortality and health complications among children by promptly diagnosing malnutrition, infections, and related illnesses.
Train center staff in the use of equipment and appoint a doctor to ensure continuity, quality, and supervision of care.
Transform the center into a model facility, replicable and integrated within the national health network for combating malnutrition in Senegal.
Malnutrition is one of the leading causes of child mortality in Senegal, irreversibly affecting newborns and preschool children. The Child Malnutrition Center by Balouo Salo was built to provide a concrete response to this emergency, but it now urgently needs to be fully equipped to operate at its full capacity.
The project involves purchasing and installing all necessary medical equipment: laboratory instruments for blood analysis, precision pediatric scales, beds, portable ultrasound machines, refrigerators for therapeutic foods, neonatal incubators, and devices for clinical monitoring.
Training of local staff will also be provided on how to use the technology, supported by technical assistance and the addition of a doctor who will work alongside the existing public health personnel. This will ensure effective, professional, and continuous use of the equipment.
The center will thus be able to offer a comprehensive, free, and accessible health service to families in the most isolated rural communities, significantly contributing to reducing malnutrition and improving child survival rates.
Every piece of equipment installed will be an investment in health, dignity, and the future. With your help, we can equip the center and save thousands of children.
A fully equipped center means early diagnoses, timely treatments, and lives saved. Every machine installed will be another chance for a child to survive malnutrition and its complications. This project will radically transform access to healthcare for thousands of families.