Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report's original reporting, "A decade of nutrition gains at risk as US-funded systems vanish in Nepal," published by Devex. Our contributor looked into the collapse of a USAID-backed nutrition system that once reached some of Nepal’s most vulnerable districts.

According to Shankar Bhattarai, Krishnanagar municipality’s health coordinator, the municipality “faces a severe shortage of health services." There are no health workers currently available to screen children for malnutrition or provide nutrition education and counseling to caregivers. Staff who once helped families prepare nutritious meals and escort malnourished children to health facilities have lost their jobs. Local health posts are critically short on lifesaving therapeutic supplies, including ready-to-use therapeutic food.

Source: Devex