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Focus on Child Health

Focus on Child Health
Start Date :
Jan 22, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 01, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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There is a need to improve access to child health services. The Ministry of Health is focusing on promoting child health through appropriate interventions. Presently, the ...

There is a need to improve access to child health services. The Ministry of Health is focusing on promoting child health through appropriate interventions. Presently, the Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD addresses the nutritional needs of school going children in the age group of 6-14 years through the Mid- Day Meal (MDM) Scheme. The Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) under WCD also addresses the issues of child health. There is, however, a need to synergize the multi-sectoral interventions taken by the relevant GOI Ministries. The existing schemes need to be examined for their outcomes and impediments in implementation, including those of coordination. This theme seeks views and suggestions on how to ensure greater focus on child through improvements in existing schemes and suggest new holistic interventions.

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mahender gupta
mahender gupta 11 years 4 months ago
Maximum focus is required on toilets in schools.it is practically difficult to use toilets for students in schools. Teachers n students should use the same toilets. Normally teachers keep separate toilets. Regular health checck ups should b done in schools, through companies corporate social responsibility scheme, our students will b healty with timely diagnose. Healthy mind lives in healthy body.
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SHIVRAJSINH CHUDASAMA
SHIVRAJSINH CHUDASAMA 11 years 4 months ago
jay hind sir,food in Mid day meal is good for child's and every school give a good food ?? ans is NO. i see food is mid day meal food it's very bad for child's or other human. why ?? ans is "government not serious to child health", i just say idea any person give bad food "change of the mid day meal of school" thank you sir
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Satishchandra Bharadwaj
Satishchandra Bharadwaj 11 years 4 months ago
It is imperative that each village, even in the remotest and the farthest corner country at that, must have the facilities to render medical care to each and every child so that the health factor is reckoned with effectively. Health factor OF THE CHILD MUST GET PRECEDENCE OVER ANY AND EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF SOCIAL SPHERE. ALL STAKEHOLDERS MUST GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER WITHOUT WITHOUT WORKING AT CROSS PURPOSES. LET THERE BE NO LET UP. ANY LET UP ON THIS COUNT WILL BE RUED BY POSTERITY.
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Shikhar Amar
Shikhar Amar 11 years 5 months ago
Mid day meal is a govt. incentive to decrease dropout rate but decreasing dropout rate is not going to boost learning outcome but could eventually decrease it because students come to school with a mindset of eating food and not learning!! And the quality of mid day meals are also not upto the marks of health standards!
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AJAY GUPTA
AJAY GUPTA 11 years 5 months ago
Sir,our social setup in villages can never support the dietary needs of a growing child.This will only have a deleterious efect on the child health who is the future of our country. Our govt.must take responsibility of at least three time meal to every enrolled child in school. We can get financial support for this purpose from saving funds from anemia programes and financial aid given to children which actually never reaches the children and is lost at the level of parents themselves.
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AJAY GUPTA
AJAY GUPTA 11 years 5 months ago
Sir, when Weekly Iron Folic acid Supplementation Programe (WIFS) was launched in India to prevent anemia in children.I personally fail to understand that when this large blue tablet is to be taken only after having meal and not empty stomach, then how can this tablet benefit those children who are anemic because of inadequate diet and are technically empty stomach most of the time in the day.What is the solution for these children who are struck in this vicious cycle of empty stomach and anemia?
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AJAY GUPTA
AJAY GUPTA 11 years 5 months ago
Mid day meal is a misundestood concept. It is a meal to attract children to school and help them spend time in school. IT IS NOT A MAIN COURSE OF MEAL. For a child to grow, he needs several high quality meals in a day. But unfortunatly,people as well as government has never tried to look beyond mid day meal. Children in villages are largly dependent on single mid day meal for entire day. This has lead to malnourishment in children. Anemia is the major projection of this mismanagment. Jai Hind
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Vatsala Raghuvanshi
Vatsala Raghuvanshi 11 years 5 months ago
1. better regulation and improvement of quality of food in mid-day meal programme 2.regular health check ups & primary care at school 3.sensitizing the parents about the nutritional needs and health issues of children not only at the icds centres but also by holding sessions at community level 4.teaching hygiene practices at school 5. promoting physical activity among children
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B N Lal
B N Lal 11 years 5 months ago
बाल स्वास्थ्य पर अगर ध्यान दिया जाय तो मिड डे मील की सुविधा समाप्त कर दिया जाना चाहिए। माननीय मोदीजी ने जिस तरह गैस कनेक्सन बालों को सेविंग अकाउंट से जोड़कर सुविधा प्रदान किया है इसी तरह इनके मिड डे मील पर होने वाले खर्च को भी इनके अकाउंट से जोड़ दिया जाना चाहिए। क्योकि भोजन की सुविधा प्रदान करने वाली एजेंसी सफाई एवं पौष्टिकता का ख़याल बिलकुल ही नहीं रखते। कम से कम महीने में एक बार सरकारी एवं प्राइवेट डॉकटरों द्वारा मुफ्त चिकित्सा सुविधा दिए जाने से भी प्रतिकूल असर पर सकता है।
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