Context:
A Memorandum of understanding (MOU) is signed for anaemia control among adolescent girls through Ayurvedic interventions under Mission Utkarsh.
Govt Launches Anaemia Project For Adolescent Girls Under Mission Utkarsh
- Aim: To prevent anaemia in adolescent girls by providing cost effective and palatable Ayush medicines for better compliance with minimum adverse effects.
- Nodal ministries: Ministry of Women and Child Development and Ministry of Ayush
- The coordinating agency: Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS).
- Execution: The project will be executed in the five districts through Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Guwahati; All India Institute for Ayurveda, New Delhi; CARI, Bhubaneshwar; Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Nagpur and National Institute Ayurveda, Jaipur.
- Assessment and evaluation: The results of the project will be evaluated by premier institutions like the Public Health Foundation of India’s IIPH, Delhi, AIIMS Delhi, and ICMR giving it an empirical nature.
The Project On Anaemia Control Under Mission Utkarsh
- Pilot: The project will be piloted first in the 5 Aspirational districts of Dhubri (Assam), Bastar (Chattisgarh), Paschimi Singhbhum (Jharkhand), Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) and Dholpur (Rajasthan)
- Approximately 94,000 adolescent girls between the age group of 14-18 years registered under Poshan Tracker at nearly 10,000 Anganwadi Centres will be benefit.
- Duration: 1 year
- Objective: 15 central ministries or departments will work to elevate districts at the bottom in nutritional measures to state and national averages.
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Interventions:
- Availability of medicines: Classical Ayurveda medicines (Drakshavaleha and Punarnavadi mandoor) will be provided for a period of 3 months for better nutrition to improve the health of the anemic adolescent girls
- Promotion of wellness: Ministry will also take up a joint venture with Ministry of Ayush and ICMR for effective interventions like Yoga in Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD) among adolescent girls and overall wellness,
- Diet Diversity: To leverage traditional knowledge, and promote diet diversity through the consumption of locally grown wholesome foods.
Mission Utkarsh
- Launched in 2022 it is an initiative for rapid improvement of selected Key Performance Indicators(KPIs) in selected Aspirational Districts shortlisted by the Central Ministries.
- Coverage: 10 Districts across ten States and selected KPIs have been chosen under four Schemes namely Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, National Rural livelihood Mission (NRLM) and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gramin Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY).
- Objective: To improve the performance of the selected districts in KPIs from the current/base level to state average within a year and to take them to national average or better within 2 years.
Anaemia
- Anaemia is a condition where the blood is producing a lower-than-normal amount of healthy red blood cells or Haemoglobin.
- Haemoglobin is a protein found in red cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all other organs in the body. If you have anaemia, your body does not get enough oxygen-rich blood.
- Types: Aplastic anaemia; Iron deficiency anaemia; Sickle cell anaemia; Thalassemia; Vitamin deficiency anaemia
- Prevalence of Anaemia: As per the National Family Health Survey 5 (2019-21)
- Men (15-49 years): It is 25.0 percent
- Women (15-49 years): It is 57.0 percent
- Adolescent Boys (15-19 yrs): 31.1 percent
- Adolescent Girls (15-19yrs): It is 59.1 percent
- Pregnant women (15-49 years): 52.2 percent
- Children (6-59 months): 67.1percent
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Government Initiatives:
- Anaemia Mukt Bharat (AMB): It targets to reduce anaemia in the vulnerable age groups such as women, children and adolescents.
- Approach: It will follow the life cycle approach by providing preventive and curative care through a 6X6X6 strategy
- The 6X6X6 strategy: It includes six target beneficiaries, six interventions and six institutional mechanisms for all stakeholders.
- Measures:
- Prophylactic Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in all six target age groups
- Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Campaign:
- Improving compliance to Iron Folic Acid supplementation and deworming
- Enhancing appropriate infant and young child feeding practices
- Ensuring delayed cord clamping after delivery (by 3 minutes) in health facilities
- Testing and treatment: By using digital methods and point of care treatment, with special focus on pregnant women and school-going adolescents.
- Management of severe anemia in pregnant women undertaken by administration of IV Iron Sucrose/Blood transfusion
- Addressing non-nutritional causes: Special focus on malaria, hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis
- Follow up: Providing incentives to the ANM for identification and follow-up of pregnant women with severe anaemia in high priority districts (HPDs)
- Poshan 2.0: The goal is to tackle issues of stunted growth, malnutrition, anaemia, and low birth weight through focusing on Nutritional security of pregnant women, new mothers, proper feeding for infants and young children, and treating malnourished kids.
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February 27, 2024