The health promotion officer and health educationist at the Ashaiman poly clinic Mrs. Martha Lamptey has disclosed the alarming situation of malnutrition in the Ashaiman community.
According to her, cases recorded for malnutrition especially among children is threatening. She hinted that one thousand one hundred ad ninety five (1,195) under zero to eleven (0-11) months, two hundred and seventy seven (277) under twelve to twenty three (12-23) months and thirty six (36) under twenty for to fifty nine (24-59) months children have been recorded just within half of the year for malnutrition with one hundred and seventy five (175) cases for severe malnutrition.
Mrs. Lamptey disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Sena news.
Mrs. Lamptey however intimated that malnutrition is the mis-distribution of nutrients in the body, adding that, it is not only under nutrition but also over nutrition (obesity). Outlining the causes of this alarming situation to Sena news, she noted that inadequate knowledge about food, poverty, poor personal hygiene and traditional beliefs and taboos are contributing factors to the problem.
She has therefore called on the Mills administration to come to the aid of Ashaiman Community and organize health programme to advice parents especially mothers to pay attention to the well being of their wards.
Report by: Regina Asamoah.
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