Colombia: One Child Died Every Two Days This Year From Malnutrition
Colombia: One Child Died Every Two Days This Year From Malnutrition
BOGOTA, March 7 (BERNAMA-NNN-AGENCIES)--Malnutrition has robbed Colombia's indigenous communities of one child every two days this year, a tragedy caused by neglect and discrimination, human rights groups say.
Twenty-nine children in Colombia under the age of five have died from probable cases of malnutrition in 2016 alone, according to new numbers released by the country's National Health Institute (INS).
In a new report, the INS stated that the deaths had "different pathologies, which recorded malnutrition as one of the main diagnoses" making it "a probable cause of death."
Though all the cases involved children under five, 79 percent of the deaths were children under one-year-old, while 55 percent of the cases were female, the report added.
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