It is possible today to voice a proposal to take the idea of primary health care, stated in the bold language of the Alma-Ata declaration 30 years ago, forward and work towards making it a reality.
A study conducted of the sickle-cell anaemia patients among the Chettys in Wayanad district of Kerala exposes the failure of public action in healthcare. It emphasises the need for sustainable care of these patients, which can be made available only if panchayats take an active interest. But the sick get less support from the panchayats and mainstream political parties.
Scheme being carried out in collaboration with Lions Club International and Max Hospital
MCD school children being tested for anaemia
NEW DELHI: By extending its anaemia control programme to Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run schools in Shahdara (South) Zone recently, the civic body is aiming to cover more school children under the ambitious venture.
DESPITE various schemes and programmes being offered to improve nutrition and child well-being, the National Family Health Survey III conducted in 2005-06 has revealed startling statistics about the level of child nutrition in the State.Over 70 per cent of children in the State aged between six months and three years are anaemic. Their mothers are not doing any better: over half of all married women are also anaemic.
This paper analyses levels of women's malnutrition in India over the seven years between 1998-99 and 2005-06, based on the National Family Health Survey. During a period of higher growth and a reasonable pace of reduction in poverty, malnutrition especially iron-deficiency anaemia has increased among women from disadvantaged social and economic groups. The adverse influence of maternal malnutrition extends beyond maternal mortality to causing intrauterine growth retardation, child malnutrition and an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases.
Children living in areas of high malaria transmission rapidly acquire immunity to malaria in early childhood; by the time they reach school age, the risk of clinical attacks and death has reduced.However, many school-aged children continue to harbour asymptomatic parasitaemia, which can cause anaemia.4 Although
malaria might have an adverse eff ect on cognition and education outcomes, evidence for this has so far been lacking, and the case for school-based malaria control has not been established.
The programme will cover about 1.5 lakh children Sir Ganga Ram Hospital will collaborate in it NEW DELHI: Mayor Arti Mehra on Thursday said that after completion of the anaemia control programme in the Capital's Shahdara North and Shahdara South zones, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has now decided to extend the programme to municipal primary schools in South Zone, Central Zone and West Zone.
Health officials were in for a shock when a random haemoglobin level check showed just how anaemic women were in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Fifty-five of the 215 Class II and III women employees had haemoglobin levels under 10 gm while seven women had very low haemoglobin levels.
Have you got your child checked for anaemia? A recent study on family healthy, carried out by the National Family Health Survey suggests that 80 per cent children in Gujarat are anaemic. Gujarat ranks 12th among 19 states with 80 per cent children anaemic, especially those aged between 6 months and 3 years. Gujarat has also got the dubious distinction of having one of the highest infant mortality rate.
A large number of students of primary schools in the district are suffering from anaemia and worm infection. To tackle the problem, a campaign to "de-worm" primary schoolchildren of the state has been started with a target of giving oral pills to 13,63,466 students. The children will be given a tablet of albandazole (400 mg).
