Child Health and Nutrition

Welcome to the Child Health and Nutrition bLog.

The purpose of this blog is for promoting knowledge sharing and learning around child health and nutrition.

Objectives:

• Ensuring provision of neo-natal care to pregnant women, new-born care and special focus on health;
• Nutrition and complete immunisation of children in the 0-3 age group
• (in effect, focus on the entire period from the stage of conception to the time the child is three years old);
• Reduction of grade-I & grade-II malnutrition in the State;
• Assisting the Public Health Department in provision of training for implementation of the IMNCI and home-based new-born care programmes on a pilot basis in selected primary health centres (PHCs);
• Focus on the education of adolescent girls to reduce the incidence of child marriages and promote spacing between children;
• Making efforts to bring about social transformation through participation of the community so that the responsibility for nutrition management is transferred from the government to civil society.