Malnutrition –an invisible emergency
...ot cause of malnutrition is poverty, at the household, community and national levels -- which results in lack of access to such basic necessities as food, health care, safe drinking water and sanitation. A second cause is an insidious combination of simple ignorance and prejudice against women, which deprives them of the rest and care they require during pregnancy and lactation, as well as access to education and economic resources. Malnutrition also perpetuates a generational cycle of poverty, as a malnourished girl tends to grow up and bear underweight, malnourished children; and malnourished children are likely to be intellectually impaired, with diminished productive and creative capacities. In addition, malnutrition may pose heavy future economic burdens to societies The persistence of malnutrition is one of the tragedies is one of the tragedies of our one third of our population in India . Health statistic complied by the government have shown that the chronic problem of malnutrition is alive and well. As per the year 2002, 40% of children in India suffer from malnutrition . The number of children in zero to one year age group who died because of malnutrition has increased from 3,959 in 1996-97 to 4,347. despite of the programmes established by the government ,India has not been able to its problem with nutrition under control According to Amar Jesani the trustee of CECHAT (Centre For Inquiry Into Health And Allied Themes) ,the government doesn”t want to name malnutrition as the cause of these death since it has become political liability . The crises of malnutrition cannot be completely eliminated but can be reduced by giving more priority to existing nutrition , basic s...