Health experts at launching of the Maternal Nutrition Campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) observed that if nations want to secure their future they have to invest in nutrition to ensure better health of coming generations.
Expending money to nutrition is investment of saving billions of rupees to overcome the impacts of malnutrition, they added. These views were expressed by them while speaking at the launching of Nourish Maa (Healthy Mother) held here at a local hotel on Thursday.
Provincial Minister for Health, Syed Qasim Ali Shah was chief guest on the occasion and several health officials, doctors and workers attended the ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion, Senior Regional Advocacy Advisor Nutrition International, Dr Irshad Danish said that the overall stunting percentage in Pakistan is around 40 per cent which is alarming and reflects malnutrition among females and children. Around 57 per cent of adolescent girls are anaemic and 27 per cent of women of reproductive age are vitamin A deficient while 22 per cent are zinc deficient, he added.—APP
