{"id":14910,"date":"2020-01-16T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2020-01-16T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:02:41","slug":"over-50-of-burundian-children-under-five-to-be-suffering-from-chronic-malnutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/over-50-of-burundian-children-under-five-to-be-suffering-from-chronic-malnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50% of Burundian children under five to be suffering from chronic malnutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;54.2% of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition,&#8221; said Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Burundi Minister of Health while presenting a donation given by the World Bank to improve the health of children before parliamentarians this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14919\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14919\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thade\u0301e-Ndikumana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thade\u0301e-Ndikumana.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thade\u0301e-Ndikumana-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thade\u0301e-Ndikumana-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thade\u0301e-Ndikumana-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thad\u00e9e Ndikumana, Burundi Health Minister: &#8220;54.2% of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr Ndikumana has said 3.7% of children under the age of 5 suffer from wasting disease, 5.1% suffer from anemia while others are born with anemia because their mothers did not take essential vitamins needed when they were pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ndikumana referred to the report published by the Burundi Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies-ISTEEBU.<br \/>\nParliamentarians have expressed their concerns over that high rate of chronic malnutrition while the government claims that food production is abundant in the country.<\/p>\n<p>MP L\u00e9opold Hakizimana wonders how more than 50% of children can suffer from chronic malnutrition while the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock says that food production is plentiful.<br \/>\n&#8220;The two ministers must explain to us the cause of this increased malnutrition among children in a country where agricultural production is abundant,&#8221; said Hakizimana.<\/p>\n<p>MP L\u00e9nate wonders how the government will fight these malnutrition-related illnesses as long as some Burundians still live in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Minister affirms that food production is abundant. He believes that different ministries must collaborate to properly execute the program of improving children health.<br \/>\n\u201cBurundians lack nutrition education,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;54.2% of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition,&#8221; said Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Burundi Minister of Health while presenting a donation given by the World Bank to improve the health of children before parliamentarians this Wednesday. Mr Ndikumana has said 3.7% of children under the age of 5 suffer from wasting disease, 5.1% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[45,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}