The new law affects some five million Colombian infants who currently have to survive with some degree of malnutrition and a lack of health care.Jaime Restrepo (Partido de la U), initiator of the law, explains that the government now must prioritize investing the obligatory 4 percent of the country’s GDP in infancy. The government had neglected to do so over the past few years.
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