Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 28 Aug 2024, 08:45 am Print
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A new report has revealed that more than 41 percent women in Pakistan are suffering from anaemia.
The state of maternal nutrition is so bleak that 186 women die per 100,000 live births; suboptimal breastfeeding leads to 2,000 deaths in mothers due to breast and ovarian cancer and 1,100 deaths due to type-II diabetes annually, reported Dawn News.
The report also highlighted that there are 1.4 million cases of low birth weight in Pakistan each year.
This has been revealed in the ‘Cost of Inaction Tool’ developed by Nutrition International.
The report showed that there are 918,154 new cases of anaemia among pregnant women and adolescent girls (15 to 49) every year.
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