quarta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2014

National Nutrition Week 2014: What we wish the Narendra Modi government would do for our kids

wishes from a governmentSeptember 1-7 is National Nutrition Week.


India is a republic where one in 3 children die due to malnutrition. The Indian supervision implementing a series of nourishment programmes for propagandize going children, though there still is a prolonged approach to go. In this year’s domestic manifesto, a BJP supervision said, ‘School health module would be a vital concentration area, and health and hygiene will be done a partial of a propagandize curriculum.’[1] In their domestic manifesto, a BJP mentioned propagandize health as one of a priorities. Well, we have a few wishes from a new supervision with honour to children’s health and nutrition. Here are a tip 5:


1. Improve doing of Right to Health for children: Each day millions of children humour from a scourges of misery and mercantile predicament – from craving and homelessness; from epidemics and illiteracy and from plunge of a environment. We need to safeguard that children have equal rights and entrance to health and education, dual pivotal factors that are essential for expansion and development. After all healthy children will make are a destiny of a nation. 


2. Improve doing of Right to Education: The Right to Education Act was started in a nation though there are still stories of children being incited divided from schools. We wish this supervision would urge a approach a act is implemented to so each child has entrance to good peculiarity education.


3. Improve notice mechanisms to lane diseases in children: The new supervision has a event to fine-tune and hurl out a RBSK – a programme underneath that a School Health Programme will shortly be subsumed. RBSK focuses on endless child health care, implies declaration of endless health services for all children from birth to 18 years of age for a set of health conditions. These conditions are diseases, deficiencies, disability and developmental delays – 4 Ds. Universal screening would lead to early showing of medical conditions, timely intervention, eventually heading to a rebate in mortality, morbidity and lifelong disability.[2]


 


4. Conduct early showing and supervision of diseases including deficiencies: Deficiencies and non-communicable diseases in children mostly go neglected due to poverty, miss of entrance to correct medical caring and good screening facilities. According to a Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, some-more than 5 crore teenagers (15-19 years) are sickly in a nation suffer  from iron scarcity anaemia and are during risk of several associated ailments. This statistic is towering and therefore we wish that this supervision would assistance detect these deficiencies early and stop their progression.
5. Improve notice mechanisms to lane diseases in children: In a same vein, tracking a diseases in children is equally important. Not usually will it assistance us see how good a sold health plan competence be doing, it will also assistance us see where we need to improve.


Finally, healthy, clever and mentally sound children are a destiny of this nation and it is about time we took some estimable stairs to assistance make a children in a nation fit.


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References:


[1] BJP (2014) Political manifesto. Available from: http://bjpelectionmanifesto.com/pdf/manifesto2014.pdf


2 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2013). National Health Misson: RBSK. Available from: http://nrhm.gov.in/nrhm-components/rmnch-a/child-health-immunization/rashtriya-bal-swasthya-karyakram-rbsk/background.html




National Nutrition Week 2014: What we wish the Narendra Modi government would do for our kids

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