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Sri Lanka: Malnutrition to increase, poverty rises to 14 percent
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Sri Lanka: Malnutrition to increase, poverty rises to 14 percent

| @indiablooms | 13 Sep 2022, 03:30 pm

Colombo/IBNS: Malnutrition will rise in the face of increased poverty and high food prices induced by the current economic crisis, the Sri Lanka Medical Nutrition Association, the Nutrition Society of Sri Lanka, the Dieticians Association and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) People’s Forum informed.

These institutions urged the authorities to stabilise the gains achieved in nutrition status of the vulnerable in Sri Lanka, especially of children less than five years of age, The Island newspaper reported.

The associations say that children under five are considered as the sentinel or observation group of the whole of the population nutrition status. Any change in the diet is quickly reflected among children especially of this age.

Currently, the poverty level has risen to 14 percent from a previous value of 6.7%.

This amounts to 7,00,000 families out of 4.9 million, which are “nutritionally at risk”.

There should be a systematic programme of intervention especially targeting these households and their vulnerable family members without piecemeal approaches on the part of the state and non-state actors, the groups said.

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