37% of Nigerian children suffer stunted growth
The Kwara State Coordinator of the Civil Society for Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), Dr. Uthman Mubashir, has said about 37 percent of Nigerian children suffer stunted growth due to malnutrition.
Speaking during a Town Hall Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop, Mubashir said only 17 percent of mothers practice exclusive breast feeding.
"This means only one out of every five Nigerian children is exclusively breast-fed. Four out of five mothers are not doing it well, which culminates into 37 percent of Nigerian children under-five years being short for their ages ," he said.
Mubashir explained that stunted growth results from chronic hunger, that 13 million under-five Nigerian children were suffering this malaise.
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