Child malnutrition may be worsening under the national lockdown, as food parcels fail to cater for child nutrition, a local civil organisation has claimed.
The South African Civil Society for Women’s, Adolescents’ and Children’s Health has called on the government to reconsider how they distribute food parcels and the items contained in them.
She criticised the phased-out approach to the lockdown and called for the establishment of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as handwashing, wearing masks, social distancing and prohibitions on gatherings – a statement for which she came under fire from health department acting director general Anban Pillay.Covid-19 is a threat to health and a major global disrupter; however, hunger has shown itself to be a more tangible threat.
Severe acute malnutrition remains a significant underlying cause of child mortality. It is still associated with one third of all child in-hospital deaths according to the 2018 interim report from the Committee for the Morbidity and Mortality of Children.
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