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India Initiates Various Measures to Contain Anemia Among Children
Anemia is a multifaceted problem. The important reasons for widespread anemia are inadequate intake and absorption of iron from cereal based diet, inadequate consumption of green leafy vegetables and citrus fruits, frequent pregnancies with shorter intervals, high prevalence of infections and infestations, faulty feeding practices and lack of dietary diversification. Apart from aforesaid factors, illiteracy, poverty and general economic and social development have a bearing on the incidence of anemia among people of our country.
Government has initiated several measures to improve the health and nutritional status including anemia amongst the people.
Measures to reduce the nutritional Anemia
Government has initiated various measures to improve the nutritional status including anemia in the population. The measures are:1. The Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH-II) provides iron and folic acid tablets to all pregnant and lactating women and preschool children for anemia control. Now it has been decided that children 6 months to 5 years would be given 20 mgs iron and 100 mcg folic acid supplement in liquid form. Children 6-10 years would be provided with 30 mg iron and 250 mcg folic acid while adolescents in the age group 11-18 years would receive the same dose as adults.
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desai(Guest)
02/07/2010
As we all know the reason of many diseases starts from poor nutrition and anemia but in this super fast world how many people take real itrest in curing the illness? As i am Homoeopath,without any bias i take help from all system of medicine and trying to improove my patients. Thanks for great humanity work.
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