Over RM5 million spent on child protection

KUALA LUMPUR Sept 9 - The government has spent up to RM5.2 million a year on child care and protection programmes run by the Social Development Department. Its Director-General, Datuk Sayed A.Rahman Sayed Mohamd, said today the government had also given aid to 70 of the 174 voluntary organisations providing services specially for children, including disabled children. A total of RM3 million was allocated to children's organisations this year which would benefit 7,400 children who needed care, shelter and other assistance, he said in his paper on the Rights of Children at the Malaysian Human Rights Commission's (Suhakam) inaugural forum here. He said grants totalling RM3.3 million were also extended to 42 organisations which provided educational facilities for special children like the mentally handicapped and those suffering from autism and Down's Syndrome. The department also conducted rehabilitation-within-the-community programmes which involved 5,576 children nationwide. He said that thanks to the actions taken by the government the infant mortality rate in Malaysia was only eight per 1,000 births and the BCG inoculations for children had reached 100 per cent in the peninsula and 93 per cent in Sabah and Sarawak. 10/09/2001-Utusan Express

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