Anaemia mukt bharat

“The denominators are the target beneficiary numbers across each age group of Anemia Mukt Bharat. These denominators are estimations (based on Census 2011 data) and reported programme targets. The denominators for each of these target groups are fixed for the FY and no edits of the data are allowed in back end.” Area Name Target Beneficiary Drugs Requirement India ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS ANDHRA PRADESH ARUNACHAL PRADESH ASSAM BIHAR CHANDIGARH CHHATTISGARH DAMAN AND DIU DELHI GOA GUJARAT HARYANA HIMACHAL PRADESH JAMMU AND KASHMIR JHARKHAND KARNATAKA KERALA LADAKH LAKSHADWEEP MADHYA PRADESH MAHARASHTRA MANIPUR MEGHALAYA MIZORAM NAGALAND ODISHA PUDUCHERRY PUNJAB RAJASTHAN SIKKIM TAMIL NADU TELANGANA THE DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI The Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman and Diu TRIPURA UTTAR PRADESH UTTARAKHAND WEST BENGAL

By Express News Service BHUBANESWAR : Hematologists have called for due recognition of the discipline and involvement of experts from the field in all national public health programmes. Hematologists, who came together at the two-day-long 6th annual conference of Eastern Hematology Group (EHG) and 12th annual conference of Odisha Hematology at Puri on Saturday, rued the omission of the discipline from the national programmes, despite blood disorders like anemia being major public health problems in the country. “The government has launched an ambitious target to make Anemia Mukt Bharat. It is really surprising how such a programme on anemia is launched and executed without involvement of hematology, which is the primary discipline to deal with blood disorders. Similar injustice was meted out in case of sickle cell, thalasemia and hemophilia programmes,” said EHG secretary Prof RK Jena. Despite long-term policies and programmes for eradicating anemia, the situation has not improved. In fact, the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) has brought to the fore a grim reality that anemia rather than decreasing has increased among all sections – be they infants, children, adolescents, women and pregnant women, etc. Anemia has important clinical aspects, which is being missed due to the thinking that it is a nutritional issue. Hematology has a key role in making the programme successful, Prof Jena said. “We have to consistently pursue with policymakers and agencies star...

Anemia Free Kerala A Comprehensive Program for Control of Anemia in Kerala. India is one of the countries with anemia as a serious public health concern today. Kerala has been facing the challenge of high prevalence of anemia, when comparing the results of NFHS 4 & NFHS 5 Anemia Free kerala aims to strengthen the existing mechanism imparted as part of Anemia Mukth Bharath and foster state specific newer strategies for tackling anemia. ABOUT US India is one of the countries with anemia as a serious public health concern today. Kerala has been facing the challenge of high prevalence of anemia, when comparing the results of NFHS 4 & NFHS 5. Recent data as per National Family Health Survey-5 shows that, In Kerala, anemia affects 32.5% of women in reproductive age group (15–49 years), 39.4% of Children aged 6-59 months, 32.5% of women ( age between 15 and 49 yrs). Out of this, anaemia prevalence among Pregnant and Non-Pregnant women are 31.4% and 36.3% respectively. Anemia is a common nutritional problem that has a significant impact on human health. The major cause of anaemia is the deficiency of dietary iron intake. Anaemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy was launched in 2018 with the objective of reducing anaemia prevalence among children, adolescents and women in reproductive age group. Anemia Free Kerala aims to strengthen the existing mechanisms imparted aspart of Anemia Mukth Bharth and foster state specific newer strategies for tackling anemia. COMPLETE ANAEMIA MANAGEMENT SO...