Officials from the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) and the Office of the Vice President have affirmed to the National Assembly Select Committee on Health, Disaster, Humanitarian Relief and Refugees that the Nutrition Bill 2023 will empower women in The Gambia.
Officials from the National Nutrition Agency and the Office of the Vice President have affirmed to the National Assembly Select Committee on Health, Disaster, Humanitarian Relief and Refugees that the Nutrition Bill 2023 will empower women in The Gambia .
The deputy executive director of NaNA Malang N. Fofana said women in the country ought to have adequate access to high quality, safe and nutritious food available and distributed to them, and the aforesaid bill is promoting access to food security for them. "Most of the maternal deaths, the underlying cause of maternal death is anemia. Most women die when they are giving birth because they lose a lot of blood. If you are anemic and you lose a lot of blood, your chance of dying is high. So this bill is trying to address those kinds of deficiencies.
"We talk about the 1,000-day window of opportunity. This is from the day the woman becomes pregnant until she delivers. And then the child lives up to two years. That period is 1,000. If you want to develop a nation, that's when you need to introduce the bill. This bill will give us that leverage to empower women," Mr Ceesay said.
They responded in the positive. Director Ceesay disclosed that they have a strategy of social and behavioural communication and have structures at central, regional and community levels. According to him, they also have the tools to operationalise that strategy.
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