A health worker gives check-ups to children in Trong Hoa commune, Minh Hoa district of Quang Binh (Photo: VNA) This year, the project to improve people’s nutrition isprovided with 270 billion VND (11.12 million USD) from the central budget,21.35 billion VND (879,688 USD) from local budget and 1.2 billion VNDfrom other sources, the ministry said.
A report from the Government showed that in order toimplement the project, the Ministry of Health has organised a conference togive guidance on its implementation, along with eight training courses toprovide professional instructions to 180 officials from disease controlcentres of target provinces, and published professional guidance.
Localities have organised nutrition consulting activitiesand provided multi-micronutrient supplements for malnourished children under 16years old, and products to treat acute malnutrition following professional guidance of the Ministry of Health in poor districts and extremelydifficult communes in coastal and island areas, as well as for children under16 years old in poor households, near-poor households, and households that havejust escaped poverty. The rate of children receiving vitamin A and deworming drugs hasreached over 90% in target areas.
Meanwhile, localities have supplied multi-micronutrients to46,402 pregnant and breastfeeding women in 1,089 communes covered by the programme,with a total of over 8.45 million tablets of the supplements. At the same time,they have distributed nearly 11.14 million vitamin A tablets of 200,000 IU andnearly 1.48 million vitamin A tablets of 100,000 IU to children between 6-59months old.
Besides, communication activities have been strengthenedfollowing the instructions of the Ministry of Health./.
VNA
