UNICEF donates therapeutic diets for child nutrition, in Bayelsa

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has donated therapeutic diets to lactating and expectant mothers (pregnant women) in Bayelsa.Making the donations at the Primary Health Centre, Sagbama town, headquarters of the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa, the Head, UNICEF, Port Harcourt field Office, Dr Anselem Audu, leading staff members of the UN agency, stated that the essence of the donations was to ameliorate the impact of the shortage of adequate nutrition for children in the area.

The United Nations Children’s Fund , has donated therapeutic diets to lactating and expectant mothers in BayelsaThe United Nations Children’s Fund , has donated therapeutic diets to lactating and expectant mothers in Bayelsa.

The UNICEF team was accompanied to the ancient town of Sagbama by officials from the state Ministry of Health. Speaking against the background of malnutrition, Audu noted that UNICEF intends to replicate the same feat in other flood-impacted LGAs across the state. Audu said that therapeutic diets are usually a modification of regular diets, and that in administering therapeutic diets, modifications are done in nutrients, texture as well as food allergies and food intolerance.

 

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