There are signs of a ‘public health emergency’ in Britain over the rising numbers of people who need food banks and the increase in malnutrition, experts warn.
In a letter to the British Medical Journal, scientists and public health doctors say there has been a big rise in hospital admissions from malnutrition since the economic crisis began five years ago.
In 2008, 3,161 patients were admitted to hospital in England which went up to more than 5,400 in 2012.
At the same time the number of people fed by food banks has gone up from 26,000 in 2008 to 347,000 in 2012 .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
