Malnourished children deprived of care as nutritional rehabs are converted into isolation facilities

Doctors warn child and infant mortality will increase, and years of effort and investment in reducing child mortality will go to waste, if the issue is continuously ignored.

There were 12 children at the Sunakothi-based Nutritional Rehabilitation Home, a residential facility for severely malnourished children, in Lalitpur until two days before the prohibitory orders were imposed in the Kathmandu Valley last month.