India to eradicate malnutrition by 2015

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-26 09:13

A tribal woman holds her granddaughter Rohini inside a hut in Mumbai July 25, 2007. The seven-month-old twins Rohini and her brother Rohit from a tribal family have been declared malnourished by a team of the city's civic administration doctors, local media reported. India, home to millions of underfed children despite its flourishing economy, will have eradicated malnutrition by 2015, the country's health minister said. A government survey released this year however found that 46 percent of children under the age of three years were undernourished.

A tribal woman holds her granddaughter Rohini inside a hut in Mumbai July 25, 2007. The seven-month-old twins Rohini and her brother Rohit from a tribal family have been declared malnourished by a team of the city's civic administration doctors, local media reported. India, home to millions of underfed children despite its flourishing economy, will have eradicated malnutrition by 2015, the country's health minister said. A government survey released this year however found that 46 percent of children under the age of three years were undernourished. [Reuters]


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