UNICEF: Child Development Center provides free care in Georgia

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/georgia_51891.html

TBILISI, Georgia, 23 November 2009 A fine mist swirled around four-year-old Mariam's face as she breathed through a clear rubber mask during her nebulizer treatment. An asthma sufferer, Mariam was being treated free of charge at the new Child Development Centre in Tbilisi.

Mariam and her family have been displaced since the 2008 conflict in and around South Ossetia, Georgia, and access to such treatments has been a challenge for them. Now, though, the new centre is providing primary health care that Mariam's mother otherwise would not be able to afford.

Beyond assessing childrens physical health, the Child Development Centre also evaluates their psychological and behavioural development. With support from UNICEF, the Trieste Institute of Child Health and the Government of Lithuania, the centre is pioneering early child development (ECD) in Georgia.

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• UNICEF
• Georgia
• Tbilisi
• South
• Ossetia
• Trieste
• Institute
• Lithuania
• ECD

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