CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, Anemia Mukt campaign will be run in the district on the instructions of District Magistrate Manish Bansal. While holding a meeting in this regard, he said that in villages, adolescent girls are often found to be anaemic, due to which they suffer from weakness, poor eye sight and problems like malnutrition during pregnancy after marriage, abortion and malnutrition in the child. Its remedy is very simple. The deficiency can be overcome by better diet and regular intake of iron tablets.

Giving more information, he said that under the campaign, a survey will be conducted for 2.5 months under 04 development blocks, in which girls aged 11-20 years will be examined. After that, a nutrition campaign will be run for the girls found to be anaemic and after the campaign, blood will be tested again.

DM Manish Bansal informed that special machines have been purchased for blood tests. In which there is no need to extract blood. Testing can be done easily with this. In the first phase, the campaign will be run in about 100 severely malnourished Gram Panchayats of 4 development blocks. District Magistrate Manish Bansal directed the Education Department, ICDS Department, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Department to play an active role in this campaign by giving their important contribution. On this occasion, Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan, Project Director DRDA Pranay Krishna, DPRO Alok Sharma, DPO ICDS Nand Lal Prasad and other concerned officials were present.