Newly inaugurated State Governors in the country have been tasked to own the fight against acute malnutrition currently ravaging children in the country. He added that before now, many State Governments do little or nothing in the fight against acute malnutrition. Musa Rafsanjani who stressed that malnutrition is still a very big issue in Nigeria considering that about 65 children die as a result of acute malnutrition every hour, said treatment and prevention of malnutrition in children must be treated as a fundamental human right of the children. “Many State Governments don’t have matching funds, and donor organisations have started leaving, so, we have to make State Governments own these programmes aimed at fighting malnutrition”, he stressed. Gombe State had produced a well-documented state policy on malnutrition since 2016, but unfortunately, it has not been implemented since then.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 28, 2019 16:07 UTC