By Oluwatoyin Adegoke
The Ogun State Committee on Food and Nutrition, SCFN, has intensified plans to strengthen the coordination and implementation of programmes to tackle food and nutrition challenges in the state.
At a quarterly stakeholders meeting of the Committee in Abeokuta, representatives of various agencies of government were unanimous in their submission that priority should be given to the efforts to improve the state’s nutritional indices.
Chairman of the Committee and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and Planning, Mrs Olufunmilayo Dada, advised the stakeholders to strive towards attaining maximum coverage in food and nutrition interventions for the targeted vulnerable groups.
Earlier, the Committee’s Secretary, Mr Olugbenga Idowu had listed the vulnerable groups to include children under 5 years of age,the adolescents, women of reproductive age and the elderly.
Also, the representative of UNICEF, Mrs Florence Molokwu encouraged the key players to leave no stone unturned in boosting the nutritional status of the people of the state, noting that, adequate nutrition would promote healthy living enable the people to be more productive.
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