Yen Bai province deploys plan on improving nutritional status

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Yen Bai province deploys plan on improving nutritional status

Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Board of Healthcare Services for People of Yen Bai province has just issued Plan No. 34/KH-BCD to improve nutrition for local children under the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the province for the 2022- 2025 period.

Providing nutritious porridge for children in La Pan Tan commune, Mu Cang Chai district.

The plan aims to improve the nutritional status and reduce malnutrition; take care of health and enhance the physical condition and stature of children under 16 years old from poor and near-poor households, those that have just escaped from poverty in the province and children residing in the poor districts of Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai.

Specifically, it targets lowering the nutritional deficiency and improving the status of micronutrient deficiency in the above-mentioned groups. The plan also seeks to secure adequate response to malnutrition prevention and control in emergency situations for poor and near-poor households, and families which have just escaped from poverty in the province.

The plan will be carried out across the province, focusing on the poor districts of Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai. Beneficiaries of the plan are children under 16 from poor, near-poor households, and those that have got out of poverty in the locality; children living in the poor districts of Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai; pregnant and lactating women, households, medical facilities and schools in poor districts in the province.

Minh Quang

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