Govt campaign against anaemia

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday launched Anaemia Mukta Lakhya Abhiyan (Amlan), a multi-departmental campaign to reduce anaemia or haemoglobin deficiency in the state.
The health and family welfare, school and mass education, women and child development, mission shakti and ST and SC development departments will jointly roll out the initiative in 55,000 government and government-aided schools besides 74,000 anganwadi centres.
Major interventions planned include strengthening iron and folic acid supplementation among the targeted groups, testing for haemoglobin, treatment of anaemic cases, capacity building of service providers and social behaviour change through information, education and communication activities.
Launching the programme virtually, chief minister Naveen Patnaik said it will benefit about 1.37 crore people, including pregnant women, lactating mothers, women of reproductive age group, adolescents and children. TNN