The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has trained no fewer than 60 frontline health workers on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition to reduce the burden of malnutrition in the state and the country in general.

The state government expressed optimism that the training of the health workers would check high infant deaths linked to malnutrition in the country.

The Director and Head of the Nutrition Department, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, LADIDI BAKO-AIYEGBUSI identified malnutrition as a major contributor to an alarming number of infant mortalities in the country.

The Director of Family Health and Nutrition, Lagos State Ministry of Health, FOLASHADE OLUDARA, said stunted growth if not reversed by the age of two years could cause irreversible brain damage to the child.