Monday, December 23, 2024

Unawareness, not poverty, principal cause of child malnutrition: experts

Experts at a programme in Sylhet on Saturday said unawareness among the guardians about proper feeding of infants and young children was the main cause of child malnutrition in the country. Poverty is not the main cause of malnutrition among a large number of children in the country, because a high level of under-nutrition prevails ... Read more

‘Nutrition still a problem’

Speakers at a workshop said mainstreaming nutrition in the health services is essential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. They said malnutrition continues to be a pervasive problem in the country. Helen Keller International, Bangladesh and AED, with support from USAID organised the workshop on nutrition at a hotel in the city yesterday