Nutrition: Sanusi questions lack of agency, Osinbajo promises strategy
Citing statistics that indicate nearly half of all deaths among children aged under five are linked to malnutrition, he said the country didn’t seem ready yet to change the “undesirable figures.”“Every day in villages, in towns in this country, boys and girls die because of malnutrition, and the federal ministry of health does not even have a director in charge—and state ministries do not,” said Sanusi, who also chairs the trustees board of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria.
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