The high unemployment rate and teenage pregnancy are some of the contributing factors to acute malnutrition in South Africa, according to a KwaZulu-Natal dietitian.
Over 15 000 cases of severe acute malnutrition required hospitalisation during the 2022/23 financial year.The high unemployment rate and teenage pregnancy are said to be some of the contributing factors to acute malnutrition in South Africa.
This is according to Sunday Dlamini, a dietitian at Bethesda Hospital in Jozini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, who said acute malnutrition was a serious problem. Comprising the South African Council of Churches, civil society groups and academics, the group on Thursday endorsed a proposal by the DG Murray Trust and the Grow Great Zero-Stunting Campaign for the government and the food industry to contribute equally to making at least one product label of 10 highly nutritious foods affordable to poorer households.
Sometimes, they got less than the subsidy because pupils without birth certificates were not counted in the allocation.Despair, hunger and guilt: Pupils speak about Covid-19 pandemic's devastating impact on school meals
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