Nigeria, April 17 -- Health experts have raised fresh concerns over worsening cases of malnutrition in hospitals, warning that delayed nutritional care continues to put patients at risk of complications and death.

The experts, who spoke at a global webinar hosted by the West African Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (WASPEN) in collaboration with its Indian counterpart, Indian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, said the failure to prioritise early nutrition screening is fuelling a "silent but deadly crisis."

The webinar themed "Strengthening Clinical Nutrition Care Through Effective Nutrition Assessment," called for an urgent overhaul of clinical nutrition protocols, urging hospitals to adopt a "golden hour" approa...