El Niño to add to malnutrition
THE GOVERNMENT will look at the impact of El Niño on child nutrition, the Health department said on Monday. “Weather affects health,” Health Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa told a news briefing. “When there’s drought, our food production is weak. So our problem now is the nutrition-sensitive population, especially severely malnourished children.” He said the Department […]
Tomas Kauer 
THE GOVERNMENT will look at the impact of El Niño on child nutrition, the Health department said on Monday.
“Weather affects health,” Health Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa told a news briefing. “When there’s drought, our food production is weak. So our problem now is the nutrition-sensitive population, especially severely malnourished children.”
He said the Department of Health would monitor a possible increase in diseases from contaminated water and blood-feeding anthropods such as mosquitoes. — Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza
