Malnutrition on the rise in key states, finds government survey (Yahoo News)

Yahoo News published an article stating that the government recently released the first set of findings of the latest fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). The survey has indicated a worrying trend in child undernutrition, sparking fears that decades of gains may become undone. Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon said, “I think you would be hard-pressed to find any country in the world that has actually seen outcomes worsen in terms of stunting.” The current trends are an outcome of the economic slowdown over the past few years. “This survey was conducted in 2019, and the data is for children aged 0-5, so what we are looking at is children who were born in 2015-19 and the health of their mothers while pregnant. I think we are now going to need to study what went on in the lives of these households over these five years…” Republished in News Bytes (India).