Ghana: ‘Too Weak to Cry’ – Why Ghana Must Invest in Nutrition

At the nutrition ward of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Hospital at Kaleo in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region, mothers sit quietly beside children whose bodies have become frighteningly small.

Some of the children are too weak to cry. Others stare blankly into space, their thin arms resting motionless on their mothers’ laps.

The room is heavy with silence, interrupted only by the occasional cough or the rustle of wrappers from sachets of therapeutic food.

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