Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics

COVID-19 Women’s Health, Occurrence of Neural Tube Defects and Severe acute Malnutrition in Children

India has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic like most other countries of the world. The first two waves, particularly the second wave produced devastating effects on many aspects of human health and welfare. In addition to these direct effects of COVID-19 disease itself, one had to face a number of indirect effects of COVID-19 on women, adolescent girls and children. Lockdowns, loss of jobs, decrease in salaries, migration, supply chain disruption, inadequacy and inaccessibility of foods, green vegetables, stoppage of midday meals due to school closures, inadequate distribution of iron folic acid tablets from anganwadis to children, adolescents and antenatal women will probably impact women and children’s nutrition.

Author(s): Mrudula Phadke^1*, Rajalakshmi Nair² , Pramila Menon³ , Raju Jotkar⁴ , Sujata Saunik⁵

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