Malnutrition which is a killer disease affecting mostly young children have been seen in it highest rate in Zamfara state, Nigeria. But the major cause is lack of good diet which mostly can be due to the increasing rate of poverty.
The chairman, Zamfara State Committee for Food
and Nutrition, who is also the permanent secretary
Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Kabiru Mohammed, disclosed this at the weekend
during the committee’s quarterly meeting.
He said efforts was required to ensure that the society was free from all forms of child-
killer diseases, particularly malnutrition.
He said the Zamfara state government planned to
establish ten (10) pilot schools nutrition clubs in
ten public secondary schools of the state.
The permanent secretary noted that the establishment of the schools nutrition clubs would
help in promoting awareness on taking preventive
measures that would assist in reducing malnutrition rate in the state.
He said the state government through his
committee was committed to scale up infant and
young child feeding programme by UNICEF and Save
the Children in six local government councils to
other additional local government councils in the State.
Kabiru, however commended governor Abdul’aziz
Yari Abubakar for his support to nutrition programmes in the state, and appealed to the government for the timely release of nutrition funds approved in 2016 state budget.
This should be a national problem not just Zamfara state.
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