A senior medical consultant for children in Juba Dr. Hassan Chollong said that malnutrition is a public health problem in south Sudan.

Speaking during the closure of a five-day training workshop under the name "Minimum Nutrition", Dr. Chollong said malnutrition is a big problem.

The workshop aims to help health-workers, teach mothers on the importance of breastfeeding, complimentary feeding as the basic for proper growth, development of a child, and child weight control.