Concern at prevalence of stunted growth among children

Abuja - A coalition of local civil society organization
expressed concern at the increasing percentage of
stunted growth of children in the country.
A press statement jointly signed by Association of
Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, Federal Ministry
of Health, Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria
(CS-SUNN), Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre
(CISLAC), Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria
(HERFON) after the 31st National Scientific
Conference said the problem was prevalent across
all six geo-political zones of the country.
Organizations pointed out that malnutrition caused
poor intellectual performance at schools and
increases cases of chronic disease attack in children.
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It was worrying as a research recently shows
nutritional status of children across the geo-political
zones to be between 19 percent and 55 percent, the
organisation.
They thus solicited for urgent action by the
government to accelerate economic progress and
reduce stunting of children in the country.
Whilst the principal cause for stunted growth in
children used to be regarded as simply malnutrition,
there is increasing agreement that lack of sanitation
and associated diseases, such as recurrent
diarrhoea, intestinal worm infections and a
condition called environmental enteropathy have all
been cited as important causes.

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