"The malnutrition rate was too high.
"In some areas, there is a 50% malnutrition rate for children under 2.
A malnutrition rate of more than 15% is classified as a critical emergency by the World Health Organisation; in many parts of Kenya it exceeds 20%.
Haddad said that when he asked Indian journalists what the malnutrition rate was, they consistently underestimated it by half and were often incredulous when told the actual figures.
In the worst-hit areas, the malnutrition rate is 19percentt, compared with about 13percentt in the Darfur region of Sudan.
At about the same time, the government was announcing a plan to try to reduce the nationwide malnutrition rate among children.
The World Food Programme says the malnutrition rate in South Sudan is 16%, which signals a permanent humanitarian emergency.
India also has a high malnutrition rate among children, and poor nutrition in early life appears to trigger metabolic changes that lead to diabetes in adulthood.
In the worst-hit areas, like Afgooye, recent surveys indicate the malnutrition rate is 19percentt, compared with about 13percentt in Darfur; 15 percent is considered the emergency threshold.
The original cited an incorrect figure for the malnutrition rate of refugees arriving in Ethiopia and said, incorrectly, that this was six times the rate that constitutes an emergency.
Some of those factors, like an acute malnutrition rate of 24percentt in some areas of Somalia, have already soared past emergency thresholds and are closing in on famine range.
