Federal Ministry of Health says it has disbursed over 1.8 billion naira for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition in 18 States in the last two years.
Head Nutrition Division, Chris Isokpunwu, who made this known in an interview in Abuja, noted that the fund was disbursed between 2017 and 2018.
Isokpunwu said in 2017, the ministry signed a memorandum of understanding MoU with UNICEF for the counterpart contribution for the procurement of Ready to use Therapeutic Food RUTF.
He said that in the 2018 appropriation, the Federal Government disbursed 1.2 billion naira to UNICEF based on the MoU to procure RUTF.
He added that the ministry was now in the process of distributing the commodity to 12 additional states.
He said the commodity procured under the 2018 appropriation would support the earlier five states and the FCT.$Ŏ �
