Some Nutritional Considerations in Times of Major Catastrophe

Abstract

On a trip jointly sponsored by the Catholic Relief Services, the Americans for Children's Relief and The Mt. Sinai School of Medi cine of The City University of New York, Dr. Roy E. Brown spent 2-1/2 weeks in November 1971, in the Bangladesh Refugee Camps in India, observing the nutritional and general health status of children and infants in the camps. Dr. Brown has unique qualifications for this responsibility as an American- trained pediatrician who has worked for 8 years in many over seas countries including Haiti, Germany, Peru, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Ivory Coast. He has also made briefer trips serving as a pediatric nutrition consultant in Malawi, Biafra and Guyana.