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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda -Dipa Sinha

India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda -Dipa Sinha

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published Published on Dec 15, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 16, 2020

-The Hindu

Poor nutritional outcomes in NFHS-5 show that a piecemeal approach does not work

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released data fact sheets for 22 States and Union Territories (UTs) based on the findings of Phase I of the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5). The 22 States/ UTs don’t include some major States such as Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. While the national picture will only be clear when the survey is completed and data are released for all the States and UTs, what we have so far paints a troubling picture in relation to nutrition outcomes.

Worrying findings

Of the 22 States and UTs, there is an increase in the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in 16 States/UTs (compared to NFHS-4 conducted in 2015-16). Kerala and Karnataka are the only two big States among the six States and UTs where there is some decline. The percentage of children under five who are underweight has also increased in 16 out of the 22 States/UTs. Anaemia levels among children as well as adult women have increased in most of the States with a decline in anaemia among children being seen only in four States/UTs (all of them smaller ones — Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Meghalaya).

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The Hindu, 15 December, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/india-needs-to-rethink-its-nutrition-agenda/article33330459.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR2_6vY5tVoATYvWrisQ9EnKK7dx9coPJYPvO_Uo-v2FGMpf0OLygr7uyhM


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