Baqa'a Camp, East Jordan.
Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/HJBA/14. Infant feeding advice for mothers of Baqa'a refugee camp: East Jordan. Special attention is devoted to refugee children in the UNRWA camps during the first two years of their lives. Norwegian staff nurse GulDvik Petterson explains the importance of wise feeding to mothers at the rehydration/nutrition clinic in the Baqa'a refugee camp. Miss Petterson is part of a medical team provided for the maternal and child health clinic at Baqa'a Camp by the Norwegian Save the Children Fund. Rehydration centres were introduced by UNRWA in 1961 to combat the greatest single cause of death among refugee infants, gastro-enteritis and related ailments. Part of the treatment includes the menu demonstrated by the staff nurse, as well as demonstrations and lectures which are designed to help the mothers treat the disease at home and prevent its recurrence. 849.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)
1968 circa 1968-1969
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photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Petterson, GulDvik.
Refugees--Jordan. Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan. Humanitarian assistance--Jordan. Nurses--Jordan. Refugee camps--Jordan. Refugee children--Jordan.
Jordan. Asia--Jordan
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