‘Exclusive breastfeeding, polio & ANC’

Participants during the observance of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day programme held at Panchayat Hall, Totok Chingnyu Village under Mon Block on August 7. (DIPR Photo) 

Mon, August 11 (MExN): Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day programme was held at Panchayat Hall Totok Chingnyu Village under Mon Block on August 7 under the theme, ‘exclusive breastfeeding, polio and ANC.’

CDPO, Social Welfare Department, Mon T Yanlem spoke on Rashtriya Poshan Abhiyaan where he said that Nutrition Mission will address malnourishment and the targeted beneficiaries will be the children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant & lactating women and Adolescent girls. The National Nutrition Mission is focus to prevent and reduce under-nutrition and stunting in children and to reduce the prevalence of anemia among young children, women and adolescent girls, he added.

Medical Officer Mon, Dr Elizabeth spoke on the importance of Ante Natal check-up (ANC) and polio immunization programme during the day. ASHA worker M Poungyon spoke on the topic important of exclusive breastfeeding where she stressed on the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of the child health.  She shared on the harmful effect of giving a child anything other than breast milk during the first six months.

The programme was organised under the aegis of Poshan Abhiyaan in all the anganwati centres under Mon block as per the Mon block convergence plan activities on poshan.