50 percent children malnourished: DHS

January 4, 2006
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The Department of Health Services (DHS) has presented an alarming picture that more than 50 percent children in the country are malnourished and underweight.

The DHS also said that 64 infants below the age of one die in 1000 life births.

The Ministry of Health and Population has been organizing different awareness programmes across the country with the aim to reduce the child mortality and improve the situation of malnutrition.

The ministry organised a weeklong nutrition campaign in all the 75 districts last week to enlighten the people about the benefits of healthy nutrition, which was important for the mental and physical development of children, reports state run The Rising Nepal.

The campaign also aims at creating awareness among the local people and community about the time schedule of feeding children and other necessary added nutrition.

Saradha Pandey, chief at the Nutrition Section said that the campaign provided knowledge to the local people about the techniques of making nutritious food.

Pandey said that the department had also distributed Rs 12,000 for each district for the nutrition programmes. She said that the programme would take place every year.