KINSHASA, 9. April 2010 (IRIN): About 530.000 children younger than five and more than a million women need urgent nutritional support in the DR Congo (former Zaire), says the Ministry of Health. Officials are calling for more resources for prevention and treatment and for agricultural production to be improved.

- At least 700 children under-five die each day in the five provinces where only 20 percent of children have a varied diet, Victor Makwenge, the Minister of Health, said.

An estimated one million women aged 15-49 are malnourished in Equateur, Orientale, Occidental, Katanga and Maniema provinces, Makwenge added.

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