142 malnourished children have been treated in the first nutritional rehabilitation center of Madhesh province located in Birganj in the last financial year.

According to Sarita Yadav, head of the center, 142 people from Parsa, Bara, Rautahat, Sarlahi and India were admitted to the center for the treatment of malnourished children under 5 years of age. 

126 of them have been sent back home with full recovery. 1 girl who was living in Bara Ghar and was living in Birgunj died during the treatment. He was dying. 

The remaining malnourished children were referred elsewhere. Yadav says that it has been found that the negligence of parents is responsible for the problem of malnutrition among children.

She said that most of the children are malnourished due to the tendency of parents to give their children more prepared food like noodles, biscuits, mum, chowmin.

"You can't expect uneducated parents to eat nutritious food," she said, "but educated parents are the ones who give their children home-cooked, nutritious food instead of eating prepared foods that are available outside." 

The tendency of some parents to send such prepared meals to their children in the school tiffin has resulted in malnourishment in the children. She said that there is also the problem that some malnourished children who come to the center come back as malnourished even after they return home healthy.

In this way, the problem of malnutrition in Terai Madhesh is being created more by the parents due to the tendency of not paying attention to the food of the children. According to the latest standards of the World Health Organization, children whose weight is not appropriate for their height are diagnosed with malnutrition, says Yadav.

Generally, the height of a newborn baby should be at least 50 cm, and then the next year, the height of the baby should be 25 cm, the next year, 12.5 cm, and the year after that, the height should increase by 12.5 cm.