Over a million malnourished kids in M.P.

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Over a million malnourished kids in M.P., say experts

- Human Rights News.

 

[is malnourishment due to lack of food alone? We find malnourished children in rich households also.. Todays couch potato children are prone to indulge in junk food, a habit encouraged by parents. Again many suffer from anorexia (lack of appetite). Mothers report how problematic it has become to feed a child. Indeed we have too many children with damaged livers today. Whatever the reason, proper exercise with a good intake of Vit C and the ayurvedic/homoeopathic treatment with Carica Papaya and Kalmegh, under the supervision of a qualified doctor, will often ease the problem. This will also tackle the problem of intestinal worms, another major factor behind malnourishment. Often there may be an underlying tubercular state, the child will eat and yet waste away.. This requires long term treatment, again preferably ayurvedic or homeopathic. Children should not be drugged unless absolutely

necessary. The damage to livers of infants can be substantially checked if vaccines can be done away with. Too many children come down with infantile jaundice after getting the first vaccine shots. The toxins injected are too much for their livers and kidneys to handle. - Jagannath]

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BHOPAL: Global experts on management of severe acute malnutrition Michael Golden and Yvonne Grellety on Monday said here that over a million children in Madhya Pradesh were “severely wasted (undernourished) and the hospitals, health centres and nutrition rehabilitation centres (NRCs) do not have the capacity to treat this number of children. Professor Golden and Dr. Grellety made this observation while talking to senior State Government officials, doctors and media-persons after concluding a week-long visit to Shivpuri to study the working of the NRCs in that district. They were accompanied by Victor Aguayo, Unicef-India’s Section Chief for Nutrition and the Nutrition specialist with Unicef-Bhopal, Vandana Agrawal. The nutrition experts said that during their tour in Madhya Pradesh they were impressed by the commitment and high quality of human resource

comprising of doctors, nurses, anganwadi workers. They are extremely optimistic due to their exceptional quality of work and their capacity to treat children. But they also pointed out that since the undernourishment prevalence figures are too high, it is not the hospitals, health centre or the NRCs alone that can tackle the crisis. The problem will also have to be dealt with at the community level. Participating in deliberations, Dr. Aguayo said that about 80 per cent of his organisation’s efforts go into prevention of malnutrition. However their priority is also to provide quality care for children with severe acute malnutrition, he added. On the gravity of the problem of malnutrition, Dr. Aguayo said 60 per cent of the wasted children in this country live in six States. In each of the three States--Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar—there are over 1 million severely wasted children, he

pointed out. Unicef’s mission is to support and scale up facility and community based care for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Professor Golden He said that about 40 per cent of Indian children have a deficit in the growth nutrients that needs to be corrected. Some have such severe deficits that they are at immediate risk of death. (The Hindu 12/8/08)"It is now 30 years since I have been confining myself to the treatment ofchronic diseases. During those 30 years I have run against so many histories of littlechildren who had never seen a sick day until they were vaccinated and who, in the severalyears that have followed, have never seen a well day since. I couldn't put my finger

onthe disease they have. They just weren't strong. Their resistance was gone. They wereperfectly well before they were vaccinated. They have never been well since. "---Dr. William Howard Hay

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