all the children who are below 80% weight
for height are put on a supplementary feeding programme to ensure that they are sufficiently nourished. According to the annual nutrition survey carried out by Save the Children Fund (SCF) and Medecins
Sans Frontières (MSF), the average acute
malnutrition rate for children under 5 years old for the three years 1991, 1992 and 1993 is 6%. This compares favourably with a 12% acute malnutrition rate in Vietnam. The survey reports also revealed
that the main reason for the 6% acute
malnutrition rate in detention centres was
that food intended for children was either
consumed or sold in the black market by their Vietnamese parents. Thus, if food intended for children was given to them by their parents, the malnutrition rate
should have been further reduced. An
on-going education campaign has been undertaken by SCF and MSF to educate the Vietnamese parents on the importance of appropriate feeding practices for their
children.
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1.9
The statement that other childhood
diseases such as measles have caused death
among many detained children is unnecessarily alarming and not
substantiated by statistics.
1.10 It is untrue to say that children
who require hospitalization are unable to be visited by their parents. As a normal practice, parents are allowed to visit their children in hospital. Vietnamese
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