Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Malnutrition stalks Madhya Pradesh children



A severely malnourished child at nutritional rehabilitation centre, Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. He is with his mother. 60 % of children in the state in between of age 0 - 5 years are malnourished. Malnutrition stalk Madhya Pradesh children despite schemes to improve the services of anganwadis and nutrition centres. The state may be having about one lakh children who are severely malnourished and if they are not in centres like this 50 % may die ?