"In a country of relative wealth, a middle-income country, there is really no need for 52,000 children to die each year of malnutrition,” Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, said in a visit to Cameroon.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says Cameroon is experiencing a silent emergency. Four (East, Adamawa,North, Far North) regions out of the country's 10 have high malnutrition rates.
Unicef in Cameroon wants people to be aware of this problem. They want the government to make resources available from the national budget to fund malnutrition services in every corner of the country and ensure that every health centre in the country has the ability to offer nutrition services.
That was the reason behind Mia Farrow's visit to Cameroon. She met the country's First Lady, Chantal Biya, and Prime Minister, Philemon Yang; hope they got the message.
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