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Nutrition month celebration is an annual activity that makes July one of the exciting months of the year. For Cordillerans, July also marks the day of becoming as one region. The COVID 19 pandemic cannot totally paralyze the region to do all the fun and celebrations in the month of July.
A song contest using video among local nutrition committees is one of the activities for the nutrition month celebration organized by NNC-CAR. It aims to increase awareness among key stakeholders on the nutrition month theme “Batang Pinoy SANA TALL… Iwas stunting, SAMA ALL! Iwas ALL din sa COVID-19!” even during this time of pandemic. It also aims to increase camaraderie among Local Nutrition Committee (LNC) members.
Considering social distancing, limited movements and mass gatherings due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the contest will use social media platform.
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BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera office of the National Nutrition Council (NNC-CAR) disclosed that there were improvements in the nutritional status among 0-59 months children in some 53 municipalities in the region that were surveyed based in the mini-assessment on the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) to the nutrition of the children dung the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and general community quarantine (GCQ).
Based on the survey that was conducted for the said purpose, NNC-CAR regional nutrition program coordinator Rita D. Papey stated that 40 percent of the municipalities that were surveyed no change in the nutritional status of the children in the aforesaid age bracket while 7 percent reflected worsening nutritional status among children.
She cited that the reasons for the improved nutritional status include adequate food supply for families during the wrath of the global pandemic with food supplies provided by local governments, cooperatives, private organizations and other donors and children were batter cared for because parents were at theme due to the lockdown.
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In the Philippines, June is National Kidney Month. As per Proclamation No. 184, s. 1993, this is a time when the health sector and other stakeholders come together to instill consciousness and raise awareness about kidney diseases.
In light of recent events, the theme for this year’s National Kidney Month is, “Malusog na Bato sa Panahon ng Pandemya.” With this, National Nutrition Council- CAR joins its partners in reminding the public of the dangers of kidney diseases and the importance of kidney care during this pandemic.
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This July, the National Nutrition Council leads the Philippines in observing its 46th Nutrition Month campaign. With the theme, “Batang Pinoy, SANA TALL… Iwas stunting, SAMA ALL! Iwas ALL din sa COVID-19”, this year’s celebration is on catalyzing actions to address child stunting. Specifically, this year’s campaign seeks to raise awareness among Filipinos on the impact of stunting, stimulate national and local discourse on stunting, and generate commitment among various stakeholders to scale-up preventive efforts. Furthermore, in consideration of the ongoing pandemic, the said campaign also seeks to address the challenges in nutrition initiatives during this time of community quarantines.
While July is designated as Nutrition Month, actions to achieve the objectives are expected to be sustained throughout the year.
Child stunting in the Philippines
Stunting is a world-wide crisis. According to the WHO, childhood stunting is “one of the most significant impediments to human development, globally affecting approximately 162 million children under the age of 5 years. It is largely an irreversible outcome of inadequate nutrition and repeated bouts of infection during the first 1000 days of a child’s life”. Should current trends continue, the WHO estimates that about 127 million children under five years will be stunted by 2025. If the COVID-19 pandemic is to be factored in, there is a possibility that more children will be stunted if no mitigating measures are implemented.
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BOKOD, Benguet, June 12(PIA) - - Children and breastfeeding mothers are among the priorities of the local government here during this prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.
The local government distributed food packages tagged as “Nutritious Pack” to children aged 1-2 including underweight or stunted children and lactating mothers who are among the vulnerable sectors.
The initiative is part of the Bayanihan Heal As One Act program of the LGU giving attention to those whose health and nutrition may be disrupted due to limited access to basic goods and services during emergency situations. This is under the so called nutrition in emergency situations scheme to protect and promote the vulnerable sectors.
Read more: Bokod LGU distributes food packs to children, lactating mothers
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Over the past three months of community quarantine, we witnessed how pandemic affected the usual daily living of people both locally and globally. The economy stood still and deteriorated with everyone just asked to be at home. The impacts of COVID-19 are extensive and have far reaching consequences. People got sick, some lives were lost, children stopped going to school, some employees lost their jobs, and the healthcare system and even local government offices are overloaded. Not all however turned worse due to the pandemic. Here in the Cordillera, the nutritional status of children 0-59 did not get worse with the pandemic rather there were more improvements reported.
The National Nutrition Council CAR conducted a mini survey on the effect of the COVID 19 pandemic on the nutritional status of 0-59 months children since the start of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in mid-March until end of May 2020 or about more than two months of lockdown. The study showed that that 53 % of the barangays surveyed reported improved nutritional status of children 0-59 months while 40 % reported no change, and 7 % reported having additional children getting malnourished but the worsening of the nutritional status were not attributed to the pandemic. The survey was participated by 58 respondents composed of local nutrition workers from 39 municipalities. Most of the respondents were directly monitoring the situation of children at the barangay level.
