According to the United Nations Children’s Fund today on the 3rd of November 2015, it had spent N12bn to treat 1.1 million severely malnourished Nigerian children between 2009 and 2015.
The UNICEF Nutrition Specialist from Bauchi Field Office, Mr
Rashid Abdulai, made the disclosure at a Zonal Advocacy Meeting on
management of severe acute malnutrition in Dutse. He explained that the
money was spent only on procurement of drugs and other nutrients for
malnourished children and excluded the technical assistance rendered by
the fund.
According to him, UNICEF Bauchi Zonal Office was currently
working in 13 local governments of Adamawa State where 42,000
malnourished children are.
He said that in three local governments in Gombe, 27,000
children were affected by malnutrition as well as 44,000 children in
three local government of Bauchi State.
The nutrition specialist said that 34, 000 children were malnourished in 12 local government of Jigawa.
Abdulai also disclosed that 1.7 million Nigerian children were severely malnourished out of 17.3 million affected in the world.
He noted that lack of awareness was the greatest challenge in the treatment of malnutrition.
He added that problems with service delivery as well as
distance of centres where such treatments were taking place were far
from the reach of people.
Abdulai urged government at all levels to key into providing
remedy and treatment to malnourished children as the cost of the
programme was high for only the UNCEF to cover the whole country.
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