A report of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today that Guatemala is the country with the highest rate of chronic malnutrition in Latin America and the sixth worldwide.
"When malnutrition occurs to a child hurts us all, if it happens to be told a thousand children and Guatemala and this affect one million children," said the expert international body Manuel Manrique, introducing the report " Guatemalan children in numbers. "
The expert said that Guatemala is "the Latin American country with the highest chronic malnutrition and is the sixth country in the world with more serious situation of chronic malnutrition."
According to the report, which is a snapshot of the situation and define policy and guidelines for action for this sector, Guatemala has a rate of chronic malnutrition affects 49 percent of children, followed by Honduras with 29 percent, Bolivia (27 percent) and Ecuador (26 percent).
In contrast, the best country in Central America is the subject of malnutrition Costa Rica with six percent.
"The report seeks to put in place the situation, so what evidence the big issues, then the Guatemalan government and society have to put emphasis on the problem," the delegate of the international organization.
"This is a warning bell that while society and the state itself are giving, but this is the time to streamline and make the necessary actions in a concrete way to corner progressively chronic malnutrition," he said.
"As a social movement we see the important report, having statistically sight as is the situation of children in Guatemala and to make proposals together to help this child who is vulnerable," the activist of the Movement for Children and YouthAlejandra Vasquez.
According to the report, the main causes of childhood morbidity in Guatemala are respiratory infections (37.8 percent), diarrhea (10.5 percent) and unspecified dermatitis (six percent).
Resolution
Faced with this problem, the analysis to counter malnutrition in Guatemala, is through awareness of two important parts.
The first is the family, you need to receive education and family planning to reducechild malnutrition rate, so it will be reducing the number of children born every day in Guatemala, and that parents do not have the resources to support them.
On the other hand you need a concrete plan with goals and strategies to realize, through the authorities of the country, you need that part of the government budgetis Use to reduce and help low-income families who find it hard to power up their children.
The first is the family, you need to receive education and family planning to reducechild malnutrition rate, so it will be reducing the number of children born every day in Guatemala, and that parents do not have the resources to support them.
On the other hand you need a concrete plan with goals and strategies to realize, through the authorities of the country, you need that part of the government budgetis Use to reduce and help low-income families who find it hard to power up their children.
