Program Details
Sponsorship Recovery Center
Recovery Center for Malnourished Infants
Located in Las Heras, Mendoza
The "Mother Teresa of Calcutta" Center is dedicated to the comprehensive care and nutritional recovery of children with moderate and severe malnutrition. Malnourished children are immunodeficient, so their admission to general hospitals increases their risk of complications.
Attention modalities
Criteria for admission to the internment modality:
1. Primary or secondary, moderate or severe malnourished children, preferably under three years of age, in whom outpatient treatment has failed or cannot be performed for social reasons.
2. Children who require nutritional support or stimulation and specialized follow-up from an interdisciplinary group due to high biological or social risk. The children are hospitalized together with their mothers, who receive the same education and training provided in the Prevention Center.
Criteria for admission to the outpatient clinic mode:
1- Primary or secondary malnourished children, who have been hospitalized or are referred for follow-up.
2- Children who require nutritional support or stimulation and specialized monitoring of an interdisciplinary group due to high biological or social risk.
Both in the outpatient modality and the hospitalization, children manage to initiate nutritional recovery and improve their psychomotor development, modifying their eating habits and maternal understanding and commitment to the child's treatment, with the containment and support of the family and the community.
Contact us: comunicacion@conin.org.ar