Malnutrition: FG Restates Commitment To Local Production Of RUTF - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 14, 2019
TheFederal Ministry of Health has restated its commitment to provide enablingenvironment to stimulate local production of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food,RUTF to stem the challenges of malnutrition in Nigeria.
RUTFis an energy-dense, mineral- and vitamin-enriched food that requires nopreparation and is specifically designed to treat severe acute malnutrition,SAM.
HeadNutrition Division of the ministry Chris Isokpunwu said one of the strategiesadopted by government to encourage local production of RUTF was to include itin the list of essential medicines to foster its availability in Nigeria.
Hesaid only one company was locally producing RUTF in Nigeria at the moment, theministry monitored the procurement of RUTF by UNICEF and most of the RUTFdistributed were procured locally.
Itwould be recalled that the Federal Ministry of Health disbursed over N1.8billion for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition in 18 States between2017 and 2018.