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Malnutrition: Over 2 Million Children On Death Row In Kano

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"kXbObjng" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>BY Abdulgafar Oladimeji&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"NFXPrFWh" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Over two million children are prone to the threat of   <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;who&period;int&sol;health-topics&sol;severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome">Severe Acute<&sol;a> Malnutrition&comma;&lpar;SAM&rpar; stunting and been wasted in Kano state&comma; Civil Society –Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria&comma; CS-SUNN Kano state chapter has disclosed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The secretary&comma; CS-SUNN Kano state chapter&comma; Ahmad Tijjani Yau last Wednesday during a one day workshop with the theme &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Meeting of Key Gatekeepers on Importance of EBF” held at L and Z&comma; said reports of Multiple Cluster Survey indicates emphasizes on the essence to continue to scale up the fight against malnutrition in the state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He disclosed that Kano central senatorial district has the highest number of cases&comma; adding that the index reveals that the senatorial zone is the worst hit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"k6WjXCyh" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;13&sol;kano-assembly-moves-against-threats-by-malnutrition&sol;">Kano Assembly Moves Against Threat of Malnutrition<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Yau expresses the grieve that the affected children range between  6 to 23 months&comma;  adding that less than 40&percnt; of the affected children have access to Minimal Dietary Diversities&period;&lpar;MDD&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He further disclosed that&comma; so far in 2019 Dietary Diversity baseline survey has been conducted in some local government areas in Kano with the intent to map out strategies to further curb the menace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kano state Nutrition Officer&comma;&lpar;SNO&rpar; Halima Musa Yakasai while briefing members of Kano state house of Assembly during a nutrition strategic meeting&comma; told the lawmakers that investigations have unveiled that 10&period;8 percent of children within the age circles of six months to five years are malnourished&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Halima said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; 2&period;8 percent are severely wasted&comma; 58&period;8 percent are stunted and 32&period;89 percent are severely stunted&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to her&comma;  Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition&lpar;CMAM&rpar; programs are ongoing in 13 local governments in parts of the state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The local governments where CMAM work is ongoing are&comma; Bichi&comma; Dawakin Tofa&comma; Dambatta&comma; Doguwa&comma; Gwarzo&comma; Kano Municipal&comma; Madobi&comma; Nassarawa&comma; Takai&comma; Sumaila&comma; Ungogo&comma; Wudil and we are scaling up with Gabasawa&comma;” Halima said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Halima disclosed that statistics obtained in the month of   July 2020&comma; indicated that  20&comma; 037 malnourished children were admitted into various CMAM facilities in Kano state&comma; stating that out of the disclosed number of those admitted&comma; 3&comma;338 were cured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Halima bemoans that cultural belief stood tall amongst the challenges that either encourage or discourage habits that enhance the threat posed by malnutrition&comma; adding that lack of early release of funds for the implementation of nutrition activities also constitutes part of the challenge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we in Kano state ministry of health&comma; we will continue to do our best&comma; we conduct review meetings&comma; on dietary diversification&comma; also we conduct a monthly collection of data to help us monitor and improve on our nutrition programs&comma;” Halima stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; 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