Raising public awareness in preventing malnutrition

(Baonghean.vn)- On July 7, the Institute of Nutrition and the Project to improve child nutrition organized a training course on child malnutrition prevention for provincial nutrition staff in 2015-2016.

Propagating nutrition practices for children in Chau Thang commune, Quy Chau district. Illustration photo: Thanh Chung

In recent years, the work of preventing malnutrition in the North Central provinces has been promoted and achieved certain results: the rate of malnutrition by weight/age has decreased to 18.1%, the rate of malnutrition by height/age has decreased to 19.4%, over 98% of children aged 6-60 months in 22 provinces with stunting malnutrition rates are supplemented with high doses of Vitamin A twice a year; over 90% of children aged 24-60 months are dewormed and each year over 100,000 pregnant women and women giving birth in difficult areas receive iron/multi-micronutrient tablets from the project...

At the training session, the leaders of the Institute of Nutrition emphasized: to continue to reduce the rate of malnutrition in the following years, it is necessary to promote communication activities to raise people's awareness of health care for mothers and children; narrow the gap in malnutrition between regions, improve micronutrient deficiencies, raise awareness among mothers about the importance of breastfeeding and controlling overweight/obesity in children, reduce the rate of stunted malnutrition in children under 5 years old and underweight malnutrition in children under 5 years old...

Thuy Hien - Thanh Hoa