SLUM FAMILIES IN CITY ARE GETTING HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT

২৩ শে অক্টোবর, ২০১৫ দুপুর ২:০৭

Prevalence of malnutrition in slum areas is among the highest in the city. Many of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition, including low birth weight, stunting, underweight, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder and Anaemia. Govt take initiative to provide healthcare around 19,000 poor and extremely poor families living in slums in Rajshahi city. Family in slum area have been receiving health and nutritional support under the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) to combat malnutrition. The program is a component of the just concluded UPPRP. The nutrition component intends to improve the nutritional status of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adolescent girls of the project's targeted households as the highest rate of malnutrition has been found among children living in slums of the city. As schoolboys and schoolgirls are most vulnerable to worm infection, the nutrition project is putting emphasis on making them aware about hygiene and use of sanitary latrine together with proper hand washing before taking every meal. The target groups received direct nutrition and its related products like Iron, Folic Acid, de-worming tablets, doses of suspension and packets of micronutrient powder.

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