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Barely 150 km from Mumbai, 15 children died of malnutrition in the past 2 months

Updated on: 05 August,2013 08:17 AM IST  | 
Vinod Kumar Menon | vinodm@mid-day.com

Hospitals overflowing with emaciated children and sickly mothers, rivers and wells full of water that is unsuitable to drink and unimaginable poverty and disease. City editor Vinod Kumar Menon and senior photographer Atul Kamble bring you the report from ground zero in rural Thane

Barely 150 km from Mumbai, 15 children died of malnutrition in the past 2 months

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Pics/ Atul Kamble

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258 The number of malnourished children in Jawhar in July

291 The number of malnourished children in Mokhada in June

400 The number of children being treated at primary health centres and rural hospitals in the regionu00a0

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