1 Amendments of Eleni THEOCHAROUS related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of zinc for the treatment and prevention of diarrhoea and malnutrition in order to improve the survival, growth and brain development of young children; urges the EU and the Member States to allocate the necessary funds to provide zinc supplementation in developing countries which could save the lives of 450,000 children under the age of five every year;