Naresh Kumar: To respond to coronavirus, we need to think globally

Eddie squeezed peanut paste from the pouch. His pot belly belied that he had kwashiorkor: a protein deficiency that was making Eddie more defenseless against infections.Mary, his mother, brought him to our hospital because Eddie was weak, swollen and irritable and she didn’t have the tools to help him. Not only did we know what was wrong, but we had a program from Boston there. They helped Mary go home with more pouches and some education about how to keep her son from getting sick again.O