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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Jacob Phillips & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Kids rushed to hospital with scurvy as parents can't afford fruit and vegetables

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 huge rise in cases the Victorian illness 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.

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