Most of the Batsiranai children suffer from cerebral palsy, a term that encompasses a number of neurological disorders that affect muscle control and coordination. Children are generally born with the condition as it results from a brain abnormality and the sypmtpoms are stable throughout life.
Althought the majority of Batsiranai children have cerebral palsy, but a number of other conditions are also present. These inculde micro cephalic, hydro cephalic, deafness, and one HIV+ child (with CP). Some have poor constitutions frequented by pneumonias and during the cholera epidmemic several of the children devloped cholera but all improved.
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