Health Ministry organizes ‘Anemia Test & Treat’ Camp at Nirman Bhawan

New Delhi: A ‘Test and Treat’ camp for anaemia has been organised at Nirman Bhawan for ten days.  The objective of this camp is to generate awareness in the community regarding anaemia. Facilities of haemoglobin testing and nutrition counselling will be provided at the camps by National Centre of Excellence and Advanced Research on Anemia (NCEAR-A).

Nutrition counsellors from National Centre of Excellence and Advanced Research on Diets (NCEAR-D, Lady Irwin College) and Centre for acute malnutrition (Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital) will also provide nutrition counselling to the participants. People identified to be mild/moderate anaemic will be provided oral IFA supplementation and counselling, and those found to be severely anaemic will be referred for management at higher centres.

Smt Preeti Sudan, Secretary (Health), inaugurated the Anemia Test & Treat camps at Nirman Bhawan today, in presence of Shri Manoj Jhalani AS&MD (NHM) and SmtVandana Gurnani, Joint Secretary. The camps are being organized as part of ‘PoshanMaah’ being observed during the month of September.

The month of September 2018 has been declared as ‘Poshan Maah’ with the objective to reach every household with the message of nutrition. This is a multi-sectoral convergence activity by various Ministries and departments and various activities are to be carried out from National to village level. The key stakeholder's Ministries are MoWCD, MoHFW, MoRD, MoHRD and MoDW&S. The audience of this Jan Andolan strategy is people among whom change is intended, those who influence primary participants to adopt change and those who create a supportive environment.