The UN World Health Organisation or WHO on Wednesday released new treatment guidelines for 20 million children under the age of five worldwide who suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
The guidelines are critical for many national health plans currently overlooking children with severe acute malnutrition, UN Digest Daily reported.
‘If these children don’t get the right medical and nutritional care, very often they die,’ Francesco Branca, WHO’s Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development said.
The new guidelines also address how to treat children with severe acute malnutrition for HIV and offer recommendations on treating severely malnourished infants under six months.