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REHABILITATION PROGRAMME FOR MALNOURISHED CHILDREN
Rehabilitation Programme for Malnourished Children is a government’s effort to improve the nutritional
status of of malnourished children aged 6 months to below 6 years among low-income households and
poor families. The Rehabilitation Programme for Malnourished Children, is also known as the Food
Basket Programme.

A total of 10,189 malnourished children from households with the monthly income below RM2000
received the food baskets in 2017. Based on Figure 63 below, 55.4 per cent have managed to increase
weight during the assessment period in 2017. This percentage is increasing from 2016.

Figure 63
Percentage of Malnourished Children With Increased Body Weight, 2011 to 2017

Source: State Health Department, 2017

COMMUNITY FEEDING PROGRAMME (PCF)
Community Feeding Programme was started since 2013 in few states in Perak, Pahang, Kelantan
and Sarawak. This programme is a complementary programme to strengthen the implementation of
Rehabilitation Program for Malnourished Children, which had been implemented since 1989 to increase
the nutritional status of children aged between 6 months to 6 years from hard core poor households.
This programme has been identified under the National Key Result Area-Low Income Household
(NKRA-LIH) Government Transformation Plan (GTP 2.0) for the indigenous 2013-2015.

There are 46 centres in Perak, Pahang, Kelantan and Sarawak since 6 years of this programme
implemented. In 2017, a total of 181 of indigenous children were involved and the percentage of
coverage increasing from 96.2 per cent (2016) to 99.0 per cent (2017) (Figure 64). The percentage
of recovered cases also showed over the target stated (≥25%) which is 34.2 per cent (2016) and 30.6
per cent (2017) (Figure 65).

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