Pakistan has achieved a major success in combating child malnutrition.
During a review meeting of the Benazir Nashonuma Program in Islamabad, it was stated that according to independent research conducted by Aga Khan University, the rate of malnutrition among the children of female beneficiaries has decreased by up to 22 percent.
On the occasion, Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation Syed Imran Ahmed Shah described these results as a major achievement in Pakistan’s social protection sector.
BISP Chairperson Senator Rubina Khalid stated that the program has reached more than 4.5 million women and children across 157 districts of the country through 578 facilitation centers and 169 stabilization centers.
During the meeting, National Commission on Child Rights representative Ayesha Raza Farooq, internationally renowned health expert from Aga Khan University Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, and Anita Zaidi of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation described the Benazir Nashonuma Program as an effective model of social protection and praised the leadership of the Government of Pakistan for improving the lives of women and children.
