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Ghana requires GHc3.5 trillion to meet nutrition needs of over 850k children, pregnant women

Starrfm.com.gh By Starrfm.com.gh Published August 10, 2020
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Ghana needs GHc3.5 trillion in order to provide adequate nutrition to 850,000 pregnant women and over 4,000 infants in the country.

The nutritional value should include multiple micro nutrient and calcium supplementation, exclusive breastfeeding of infants and improving complementary feeding interventions.

It is expected that adequate nutrition would reduce maternal death by 82% and 16% stunted growth in children under five years and ultimately minimise infant mortality.

Currently, one out of every five children in Ghana is malnourished due to endemic poverty, especially in the northern parts of the country.

Dr Haruna Issaheku, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Development Studies, made this known when he presented findings on a study to a seven-member Eminent Panel at the “Ghana Priorities Conference”in Accra on Sunday August 9, 2020.

The event was organised by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), in collaboration with the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, an international think tank.

The conference will allow the Panel to critique 80 priority policy interventions using the cost-benefit analysis, to provide government and the donor community with the most effective policy solutions to accelerate socio-economic growth.

Dr Issaheku said for instance, it would cost government GHc203 million annually to provide multiple micro nutrition solutions to pregnant women.

Also, it would cost government GHc26 million annually by way of breastfeeding promotions and sensitisation programmes, in order for 174,000 mothers to undertake exclusive breastfeeding, which will save 745 infant lives annually.

The nutrition intervention, he said, would cost the nation to the tune of GHc623 million and compel 43,000 extra mothers to undertake exclusive breastfeeding.

Dr Issaheku noted that should government invest one Ghana cedi in nutrition solution interventions, GHc24 would be accrued to the nation.

Meanwhile, Prof.Charles Adjasi of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, who presented a study on poverty interventions, outlined four measures to alleviate poverty in the country.

They included providing skill training to help individuals pursue economic activities that would earn them regular income, cash transfers to poor households, financial assistance to microfinance enterprises operated by poor households and social housing or shelter to urban-poor households to enhance livelihoods.

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM

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