It's beginning to look a lot like 1860...
#ChildPoverty
#starvation
#austerity
#badDiet
#Rickets
#scurvy
#ToryPolicies
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/21/rickets-is-on-the-rise-uk/
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It's beginning to look a lot like 1860...
#ChildPoverty
#starvation
#austerity
#badDiet
#Rickets
#scurvy
#ToryPolicies
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/21/rickets-is-on-the-rise-uk/
Young children are being taken to hospital suffering with scurvy because their parents can't afford to feed them fruit and vegetables, nurses are warning.
Last year, a was reported.
There was tripling of hospital admissions for malnutrition since 2010, which was branded "a shameful indictment on a decade of the Tories" by Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth.
The worrying increases coincide with soaring numbers of people relying on food banks as the cost of living crisis deepens.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kids-rushed-hospital-scurvy-parents-27922386
#UnitedKingdom #ToriesDestroyingOutCountry #ToryProfiteers #ToryCORRUPTION #PeopleNotProfits #CapitalismFails #TrickleDownEconomics #scurvy #children #hospitalisation #poverty #PovertyUK #ToryFascistDictatorship #medical #HealthCare #PublicHealth #ToryTerrorism #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis