Yen Bai province deploys plan on improving nutritional status

Society

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

Other news

Yen Bai strives to establish 10 more national standard schools in 2025

Yen Bai province has identified the construction of national standard schools as a responsibility of all levels, sectors, and the entire political system. (In the photo: A lesson at Van Chan High School)

To further enhance the quality of the national standard school system in the direction of standardization and modernization, thereby improving education and training quality and contributing to comprehensive and fundamental reforms in accordance with Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW, dated November 4, 2013, of the 8th Conference of the 11th Central Committee.

Van Yen District focuses on digital transformation solutions

A staff member at the Mau A Town Health Station in Van Yen District assists residents in utilizing digital services.

Implementing digital transformation across three pillars-digital government, digital economy, and digital society-Van Yen District has achieved full electronic authentication for all transactions on the Provincial Public Service Portal and the district and commune-level "one-stop" electronic information system.

Yen Bai Maintains and Enhances Education Universalization Quality in All 168 Communes, Wards, and Townships

Students of Cam An High School, Yen Binh District, explore additional knowledge at the school's green library.

In 2025, Yen Bai Province will continue to maintain and enhance the quality of education universalization across all 168 communes, wards, and townships. This includes ensuring universal preschool education for five-year-old children, sustaining level-3 universal primary education in all localities, and achieving level-1 and level-2 universal lower secondary education province-wide. Additionally, level-3 universal lower secondary education will be maintained in 115 out of 168 communes, wards, and townships.

Lo Van Minh – The Doctor for Ethnic Minority Communities in Remote Areas

Dr. Lo Van Minh (right) implementing new medical techniques at the Emergency Resuscitation – Pediatrics Department, Tram Tau District Medical Center.

Working in a highland region, Dr. Lo Van Minh, Head of the Emergency Resuscitation – Pediatrics Department at Tram Tau District Medical Center, dedicates himself wholeheartedly to his profession, joining his colleagues in fulfilling their mission of providing healthcare for ethnic minority communities.

Society