{"id":6206,"date":"2016-01-07T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/as-population-soars-india-battles-to-tame-malnutrition\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:07:30","slug":"as-population-soars-india-battles-to-tame-malnutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/as-population-soars-india-battles-to-tame-malnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"As population soars, India battles to tame malnutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/population-soars-india-battles-tame-malnutrition-072108630.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Part-HKG-Hkg10238672-1-1-0.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A malnourished child lies on a weighing scale at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital in the eastern Indian state of Bihar\" align=\"left\" title=\"A malnourished child lies on a weighing scale at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital in the eastern Indian state of Bihar\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As another dangerously underweight toddler balances precariously on his set of scales, Dr Om Prakash knows he has to move fast to avert tragedy. \u201cThe children who are severely malnourished can die between a few hours to a few days,\u201d says the doctor during a shift at an intensive care unit exclusively for children in India\u2019s poorest state. The 30-bed hospital at Darbhanga in the eastern state of Bihar teems with children with protruding bellies and sunken eyes \u2014 telltale signs of wasting and stunting, owing to severe malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As another dangerously underweight toddler balances precariously on his set of scales, Dr Om Prakash knows he has to move fast to avert tragedy. \u201cThe children who are severely malnourished can die between a few hours to a few days,\u201d says the doctor during a shift at an intensive care unit exclusively for children in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Part-HKG-Hkg10238672-1-1-0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}