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Alarm raised over high rate of malnutrition

Chairman, Kenya Scale Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance Titus Mung’ou, speaks to the media at an Embu hotel yesterday. Despite being agriculturally productive, Embu County suffers from high rates of malnutrition. BY JOSEPH MUCHIRI

Nutritionists have expressed concern over the high rate of malnutrition in the county.

They said the crisis was manifested through the high number of children below five years who were underweight, showed stunted growth and had high infant mortality.

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