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900 children die of malnutrition a day: Expert

BSS, Dhaka
Around 900 children die of malnutrition in Bangladesh everyday mainly due to a poor dietary intake in the earliest months of their life, said eminent child specialist Prof Dr M Qudrat-e-Khuda Talukder at a seminar in the city yesterday.
He also said that the consequences of insufficient nourishment continue into adulthood and are passed on to the next generations giving rise to a wide array of effects including Intrauterine Growth Restriction (1UGR).
Dr Talukder made the disclosure at the seminar on The Lancet's Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition' organised by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR'B) at its Sasakawa auditorium.
Dr Talukder called for revitalising the nutrition programme in Bangladesh through mobilising
required resources and making the best use of expertise in the health sector to reduce the child mortality and improving the child health in the country.
Director General of the Department of Health Prof Dr Md Abul Faiz was the chief guest at the seminar while Editor of Prothom Alo Matiur Rahman and Executive Director of National Nutrition Programme Biman Kumar Saha were present as special guestson the occasion.
The seminar was attended by health scientists, physicians. NGO officials and donor representatives, who also took part in the open discussion on health issues.
Dr Faiz referred to the government's relevant health programmes in reducing maternal and child mortality and said efforts should be further geared up to improve the mother and child health in the greater national interest.
Matiur Rahman called for increased media coverage to the
health issues taking into active consideration their importance in the country's socio-economic perspective.
Professor Robert E Black of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and DrTahmeed Ahmed of ICDDR'B presented two keynote papers with emphasis on long-term educational and economic effects side by side with establishing evidence-based institutions to drastically reduce the consequences of malnutrition.
According to The Lancet, a world famous medical science magazine, more than 3.5 million mothers and under-5 children die unnecessarily each year globally due to the under-lymgcauseofundemutrition.
Besides, it said, millions more are permanently disabled by the physical and mental effects because of poor diet, putting them into the state of irreversible physical and cognitive damage. ’. * .
Dr Robert E Black said^O percent
of all malnourished children live in 36 developing countries including Bangladesh. "Over a third of the child's deaths and 11 per cent of the global disease burdens are resulted from maternal and child malnutrition,’he said.
Dr Ahmed said maternal and child nutrition interventions could prevent a quarter of child deaths in poor communities. “Bangladesh ranks the 4th position in the list of children suffering from malnutrition," he said.
According to the keynote presenters, at least 13 million children are bom annually with IUGR, 112 millions are underweight and 178 million under-5 children suffer from stunning.
"The high mortality and disease burden resulting from these nutrition-related factors make a compelling case for the urgent implementation of inieryentions to reduce or ameliorate'tfieir cbosequencas." they said.