-Scroll.in Less than half the malnourished children admitted at the district’s nutrition rehabilitation centres since 2021 have gained the targeted weight. Chandni Patle placed Bau Pawara, a feeble-looking 17-month-old baby, on an electronic weighing machine. The child, with bony limbs, was quiet and inactive – unusual for toddlers his age. It was early September, and this was his fourth check-up in two months at the nutrition rehabilitation centre in Dhadgaon, in Maharashtra’s...
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Study Finds Severe Malnutrition Spiked in Half of India in 5 Years -Priyanka Ishwari
-Newsclick.in Acute malnutrition in preschool children increased in 341 out of 707 districts across 36 states and UTs between 2016 and 2021. An analysis of district-level data published in a reputed health journal shows a worrying rise in severe wasting in almost half of Indian districts even as the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 showed only an overall marginal increase in levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in the country. According to...
More »Medical investigators say Muzaffarpur deaths probably due to malnutrition and delayed care
-The Telegraph The team of doctors investigating the deaths found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who died A team of doctors investigating the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) deaths in Muzaffarpur has claimed that the attribution to litchi is likely to be wrong and that it found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who succumbed to AES-like symptoms in the...
More »Malnutrition cases in Maharashtra under-reported, finds survey -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express The preliminary findings in three of these districts — Pune, Nandurbar and Raigad — show that percentage of wasting and of under-nutrition is higher than as recorded by the NFHS-4 and the Integrated Child Development System (ICDS). Mumbai: A survey by the public health department in four districts of Maharashtra has found significant under-reporting of malnutrition cases. The preliminary findings in three of these districts — Pune, Nandurbar and...
More »The beginning of real loss -Archana Mishra
-Govenance Now There is need for timely intervention to prevent malnutrition in tribal children She is tall, skinny and dark-complexioned. She sports a tattoo of lines and dots on her forehead, as if displaying a hieroglyphic text. Her neck is laden with beaded jewellery and a thick, rusted iron chain while the ears are pierced at two spots. The white sari draped till her knees contrasts with green and red glass bangles....
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