Over 33 lakh of malnourished children in India, 17.7 lakh of them severely malnourished: government data

Raising fears that the Covid pandemic will exacerbate the health and nutritional crisis among the poorest of the poor, the Ministry of Women’s and Children’s Development estimates that there are 17,76,902 (17.76 lakh / 1.7 million) children suffering from severe acute malnutrition…

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