KARACHI: Rates of malnutrition in flood-affected areas of Sindh are worse than in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, said Dr Mohammad Atif Habib, a senior research instructor at Aga Khan University Hospital, during a seminar on ‘Dialogue on nutrition issues in Sindh’ on Wednesday.
Sindh health department’s additional secretary Dr Khalid Hussain Shaikh referred to the National Nutrition Survey 2011, which found a Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate of 17.5 per cent in children below the age of five years in the province. Shaikh added that 17.5 per cent of pregnant and lactating women were also found to be malnourished.
via Thousands of children suffer from malnutrition: Experts – The Express Tribune.
Ismailimail 