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DOH partnership with NGO saves thousands of children from malnutrition during COVID-19 pandemic

Published December 19, 2020, 2:23 PM In the midst of the hunger crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) partnered with International Care Ministries (ICM) to quickly deliver life-saving food relief to more than 30,000 children during the COVID-19 community quarantine. Since July, the DOH dispatched thousands of boxes of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) to ultra-poor communities in Palawan, Visayas and Mindanao. Recipients of the RUTF and RUSF in Cebu. Working with local health units, the DOH and ICM identified 30,337 children across 22 provinces and in 244 different barangays who were moderately or severely malnourished and in need of food aid. 

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