A nutritionist with United Nation Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), Mrs. Ada Ezeogu has charged Osun State Government to include early
child care in its school feeding programe to address the problem of
malnutrition among children in the state.
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| Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbessola |
Ezeogu who disclosed that 195,245 children below 5 years are
stunted in the state as a result of malnutrition, charged the state government
to pay attention to early child care that would cover children below 3 years in
addition to its school feeding programme in the state.
Fielding questions from newsmen during a media dialogue held
in Osogbo with the theme: “Good Nutrition, Invest More”, said 21.8 per-cent of
children in Osun are stunted and that the situation could improve if the early
child care is included in the school feeding programe.
She commended Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola for
the school feeding programme in the state and urged him to take proactive
measures in addressing the current situation, saying that the current 21.8
per-cent malnutrition level in the state was not acceptable.
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| Mrs Ada Ezeogu |
She lamented that over 50 per-cent of infant death in the
country occurred as a result of malnutrition and called on government and
stakeholders to address the situation and prevent avoidable infant deaths.
She frowned that one out of three children in Nigeria do not
get adequate feeding and admonished mothers to ensure exclusive breastfeeding
of their children from birth to six month of life and to ensure optimal infant
and young child feeding in the first 1,000 days of life.
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