Acute poverty and its killing fallouts, continue to take the lives of unborn and newborn tribal children in Wayanad Tribal Communities.

Even the latest data with government agencies underline the enormity of the blight, including a spiral in infant and neonatal deaths, which government health officials say are largely owing to the massive levels of malnutrition and anaemia stalking tribal mothers and children.

“Each community kitchen requires provisions like milk, eggs, pulses, millets and quality rice to bridge nutrition deficiencies which do not match the reality.”