BSS, Rajshahi :
Around 19,000 slum poor and extreme poor families are getting health and nutritional supports contributing them to bringing out from the vicious circle of malnutrition in the city.
The three-year scheme is being implemented since October, 2012 at a cost of around Taka 40.12 crore in order to substantial reduction of uterine physical and mental disabilities besides supplementing the national efforts to prevent maternal and infant death.
It is malnutrition, which puts the children into a state of compulsion to usually suffer from psychological impairment and different forms of mental disorders that appears as a threat to their future development.
Some of the major nutritional problems in the city like protein energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder, iron deficiency anemia, low birth weight, over nutritional and its complication and lack of nutrition knowledge are thought to be removed with the intervention.
Ajahar Ali, Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), said the nutrition programme is being implemented as a component of the just concluded Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP).
Local Government Engineering Department has implemented the UPPRP in association with UNDP and financial and technical supports from UKaid and UNHabitat improving the living and livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls, in the city.
The nutrition component intends to improve the nutritional status of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adolescent girls of the project targeted households as the highest rate of malnutrition has been found among children living in the slums of the city.
Mahbubul Alam, Town Manager of UPPRP, said the component has arranged necessary counseling for 250 pregnant women and 1,280 breast feeding mothers, group meetings for 3,500 adolescents and courtyard meeting for 46,000 family members and 2,000 children discussing and highlighting significance of the aforesaid issues.
Around 19,000 slum poor and extreme poor families are getting health and nutritional supports contributing them to bringing out from the vicious circle of malnutrition in the city.
The three-year scheme is being implemented since October, 2012 at a cost of around Taka 40.12 crore in order to substantial reduction of uterine physical and mental disabilities besides supplementing the national efforts to prevent maternal and infant death.
It is malnutrition, which puts the children into a state of compulsion to usually suffer from psychological impairment and different forms of mental disorders that appears as a threat to their future development.
Some of the major nutritional problems in the city like protein energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder, iron deficiency anemia, low birth weight, over nutritional and its complication and lack of nutrition knowledge are thought to be removed with the intervention.
Ajahar Ali, Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), said the nutrition programme is being implemented as a component of the just concluded Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP).
Local Government Engineering Department has implemented the UPPRP in association with UNDP and financial and technical supports from UKaid and UNHabitat improving the living and livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls, in the city.
The nutrition component intends to improve the nutritional status of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adolescent girls of the project targeted households as the highest rate of malnutrition has been found among children living in the slums of the city.
Mahbubul Alam, Town Manager of UPPRP, said the component has arranged necessary counseling for 250 pregnant women and 1,280 breast feeding mothers, group meetings for 3,500 adolescents and courtyard meeting for 46,000 family members and 2,000 children discussing and highlighting significance of the aforesaid issues.
