Ghana: ‘Only 1 in 4 Severely Malnourished Children Receive Lifesaving Treatment’

Only 25 per cent, representing one in four Ghanaian children identified with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) receive the lifesaving Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) needed for their recovery.

SAM, which commonly affects children under five years, leaves them extremely thin, weak and vulnerable to infections, increasing their risk of death if not treated early.

Although an estimated 68,517 children are diagnosed with SAM annually in Ghana, only 14,385 out of a target of 25,000 children have so…