COMMENT | Why vaccination is important in malnourished children

COMMENT | Imagine how health would be affected in economic devastation in a world already reeling from a massive health pandemic.

Tumbling purchasing power would leave many families and nations hungry. Inadequate or improper diets would push many more to the brinks of malnutrition, at present an urgent global problem.

For a child, life’s precious first 1,000 days, is crucial for lifelong health and a time to capitalise on, for growth and cognitive potential.

Instead with scarce nutrition at this time, it may set fundamentals for long term diseases. For a woman, malnutrition can affect her unborn child and even unfairly impact generations to come...