With timely intervention, complicated severe acute malnutrition can be reversed
20 August 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – Aziza Jebrellah sits on a hospital bed in Port Sudan Paediatric Hospital, gently comforting her 18-month-old daughter Aysha who has been admitted to the stabilization centre for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with medical complications.
Aziza was displaced with her family from Khartoum when conflict erupted 2 years ago, fleeing first to Kassala, then moving to Port Sudan where she now lives with relatives.
Aysha had been sick with diarrhoea and fever for about 2 weeks before her family brought her to the stabilization centre. They decided to take her to the hospital when she stopped eating and appeared to be slipping away before their eyes. “When she refused to even taste anything and kept getting weaker, I was afraid I would lose her,” Aziza says. “Now I have hope that she will recover.”
