08.07.2008 - 18:14: MSF provides primary health care, psycho social care, runs a nutrition program, reproductive health program and an out Patient Department (OPD). Interviewed in Hiloweyn ITFC on 15/12/2011 Zaynab and Ibrahim, Interviewed in Dolo Ado Health Centre on 15/12/2011 Zaynab Ahmed Abdi and her son Ibrahim, 3 years old have been in the ITFC of Dolo Health Center for 17 days because the little boy was severely malnourished. In these cases, the child has to be closely monitored and admitted as an in-patient. One relative is required to stay in the therapeutic centre in order to look after the child. In most cases this is the mother. "We are from Gedo [region, not far from Ethiopia], and for the last ten years we have had to flee to Ethiopia regularly because of war or draught," said Zaynab when asked how she came to the Dolo Health Center. "I think this is the fourth or fifth time that we are back in Ethiopia." Back at home in Somalia, Zaynab and her husband are farmers, cultivating maize, tomatoes, beans and tobacco. With draughts having hit Somalia frequently over the last years, earning money from selling their products on the market had already become extremely difficult. Gedo region has also seen consecutive wars, initially between war lords in the region, then when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006-2007, and currently between the UN-backed "Transitional Federal Government" and the Islamist movement of "Al Shabaab" ("Youth") "My husband went back to Somalia in order to go and get his mother, who had remained behind. I hope that they will soon join us here in Dolo Ado," Zainab added. Three-year old Ibrahim has fallen ill [could not establish exact illness] and as a consequence grew very thin. According to one MSF nurse, when they came to the health center, the boy had all the signs of progressed malnutrition. In addition to his emaciated body, he had oedema and had stopped reacting to outside stimula, his face like a death mask. "His recovery in seventeen days has been reFoto: Michael Tsegaye