Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says the Nigerian Government gave the highest political will to nutrition programmes and interventions through the National Council on Nutrition in the country.
Osinbajo, who was represented by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this on Thursday in Abuja, at the 17th ECOWAS Nutrition forum, with the theme: “Leveraging Sustainable Financing for Multisectoral Approaches: Accelerate Universal Access to Nutritious, Safe, Affordable and Sustainable Diets”.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ECOWAS Nutrition Forum is a regional platform that brings together the major stakeholders in nutrition to review policies, practices and progress in the reduction of malnutrition and diet-related diseases in the sub-region.
Assembling and sharing relevant knowledge on access to nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets, including essential services in the Post COVID-19 era across the ECOWAS region, will speed up progress for nutrition impact.
The Vice President said that the huge expenditures on nutrition require a strategic commitment to prioritise actions that can effectively reduce malnutrition in any country.
He said that the West African region is affected by multiple forms of malnutrition across various population groups.
NAN
