The Media Centre Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM) has declared that all is set
to host its first-ever Nutrition Symposium scheduled to hold in Lagos on
Friday, August 4 at Welcome Centre Hotels, this year, reports ITRealms.
The
National Coordinator of Media Centre Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM), Mr.
Remmy Nweke, said the theme would focus on "Malnutrition,
child development and the media."
This,
he said is coming as MeCAM is partnering with the Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition (GAIN) and Scaling-up Nutrition Business Network (SBN), to enhance information
sharing as far as nutrition in the country.
He
also said that the partnership would benefit child development and the role of
media, in a developing economy like Nigeria and beckoned on other stakeholders
to emulate GAIN by partnering with MeCAM in this auspicious event.
Equally,
Nweke who is the Group Executive Editor,
DigitalSENSE Africa that at the forthcoming Nutrition Symposium by MeCAM, would
see to the leadership of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and
Scaling-up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) taking discussion on “Communicating
Nutrition Messages to Stakeholders: Role of the Media.”
The
GAIN and SBN team, he confirmed, would be led by coordinator of SBN Nigeria, Uduak Igbeka, and would dwell on the sub-theme with
expertise and dispatch, alongside other experts with vast experiences on the
subject matter.
Further,
he quoted the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as recently declaring
that estimated 12.9 per cent of the Nigeria’s 190m population has been
projected to be among some 5 million undernourished people in the world today.
Nweke revealed that MeCAM is resolute to use this symposium to not
just draw public attention to the threat that malnutrition poses to the future
of the country, but to also correct the impression that this menace is
restricted to the poor.
He emphasized that UNICEF had estimated, at least 2.5m Nigerian
children suffer from acute malnutrition (SAM), thus posing the danger of many
of them being at risk of death unless properly treated and of course with right
information.
This situation, he said, represents clear and is dangerous to the
socioeconomic wellbeing of the entire country.
MeCAM,
he said, is peopled exclusively by journalists, and mediapreneurs to push the
narratives to save the Nigerian child from the danger of malnutrition through scaling
up reporting and advocacy, among others.
Ayo Midele/GEE
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