Diarrheal disease takes a deadly toll in Bungoma District. This hospital didn't have time to wait for the ORT corner facility to be added to the hospital. They added a makeshift extension to serve as a temporary ORT corner so they could continue to treat dehydrated patients while the permanent space was built.

Records from Webuye District Hospital show a steady decrease in the number of patients admitted for severe dehydration after the installation of their ORT corner.

While treating their children at the ORT corner, mothers also are empowered through education on how to recognize warning signs of dehydration, when to take the child to the hospital, and how to prevent diarrhea.

At the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital's ORT corner, a mother spoonfeeds ORS to her daughter.

PATH staff deliver hot plates for sterilizing water and cooking porridge to a health care worker at a hospital in Bungoma District. Diarrhea and malnutrition are a vicious cycle that can have a negative long-term impact on a child's physical and cognitive development. A healthy meal is important for a child's recovery, in addition to rehydration.

In the Kimilili hospital ward in Western Province, Kenya, Alfred Ochola, primary health care coordinator for PATH's Enhanced Diarrheal Disease Control Initiative, examines a severely dehydrated child. It is her fifth day receiving expensive IV fluids, but if she had been treated with ORS at the first sign of dehydration, she could have gone home healthy within a matter hours.

Health care workers continually advocate for ORT corner coverage. An ORT corner allows mothers to participate in the treatment of their children while staff attend to numerous other patients.

ORT corners are furnished with a simple set of supplies: a comfortable bench, plastic containers, ORS, zinc, and a hot plate for sterilizing water and cooking porridge.

This severely dehydrated child is now on the mend. Having been treated with IV infusions for five days, she is now receiving ORS.