The new smartphone-based tool developed by researchers of Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS) at IIIT-Hyderabad promises to revolutionise the way malnutrition is detected among children.
Siri Poshana aims to provide ragi laddu, ragi java, sprouts, and multi millet laddu to students below six years, lactating women and pregnant women once in a week in the month of February.
A study conducted by the Institute of Health Management and Research (IHMR), Bengaluru, demonstrated a reduction in malnutrition by administering spirulina to children for six months
Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the previous articles related to digestive system and and the diseases associated with it. In this article, we will discuss how Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM) affects infants and children to produce Marasmus and Kwashiorkar. Marasmus Marasmus is produced by a simultaneous deficiency of proteins and calories. It is found […]
Sindh: Over 36 child fatalities in Thar, a district in Sindh province in Pakistan, in the first month of 2022, have created a difficult situation for the provincial government, reported The Express Tribune. While verifying the deaths of the 36 infants, Hyderabad’s Deputy Director-General Health Dr Irshad Memon said that children born in Tharparkar district […]
India may have strongly opposed the methodology used in the preparation of the recent Global Hunger Index (GHI) that ranked the country at 101 among the list of 116 but its own official data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) confirms the seriousness of the problem of malnutrition, particularly among children and women. It […]
In September, the UN said that critical aid had been cut at 300 health centres and more than a third of its major humanitarian programmes had been reduced or shut down entirely.
