
A study has revealed that nearly one in four children under the age of five in Malaysia suffers nutritional stunting. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 1, 2017.
MORE than a quarter of children aged one to nearly two in Putrajaya are stunted, a study has revealed.
The Edge Markets in a report said the fact was revealed in the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2016, which found that 28% of children aged 12 to 23 months in the administrative capital suffer from stunting, or less than normal height growth.
The chief cause of stunting is chronic undernutrition.
The prevalence of stunted growth in Putrajaya is just 2% away from being called a health emergency by the World Health Organisation.
Nationally, it has been found that 20.7% of children under the age of five are stunted. This was reported in June in Malaysia’s first voluntary national review of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, presented to the UN General Assembly in New York. Read more