Jaryd Jason
15 October 2015
The City of Cape Town’s Health
Directorate is working in conjunction with a number of partners to reduce the
incidence of malnutrition.
Councillor Siyabulela Mamkeli
says, the Western Cape government has made available a subsidy of Four
million-nine hundred and four-thousand for the 2015/2016 financial year for the
Nutrition Therapeutic Programme, administered on its behalf by City Health.
Mamkeli says “The first 1000
days of a child’s life are crucial and this is a key area focus for us. He says
malnutrition can result not only in physical growth inabilities but also mental
development. Early detection is effective, but the longer the child remains malnourished
the higher irreversible developmental damage.”
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