Guntur: American Oncology Institute in Guntur, part of one of South Asia's largest cancer chain hospitals has successfully saved a 4-year-old severely malnourished child suffering from acute T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Under the guidance of Dr Ramprahlad KM, Consultant Medical Oncologist at AOI, the child was put on a nourishing and energetic diet plan, balanced with protein supplements and started on chemo …
Officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department, in association with St. Theresas College for Women and Maarpu Trust, visited the anganwadi centres and checked the growth of malnourished children on Saturday. NTR District Internal Complaints Committee chairperson and Maarpu Trust director R. Suez said that the protein rich diet prepared by students of the Department of Clinical Nutrition …
Members of Jagruti Mahila Okkoota, who were on a door-to-door survey on the food habits in some villages of Belagavi district in Karnataka, found that women were giving biscuit and tea to their children for breakfast while they ate roti or rice before setting out for work. Simple tweaks of this kind, made by the women’s voluntary group working in …
Ramping up the facilities to improve the nutritional level in children, the Department of Bal Vikas Seva evam Pushtahar of the Uttar Pradesh government has installed baby weighing machines and stadiometer machines in the Anganwadi centres of all districts. In the ICT-RTM of the Central government’s ‘Poshan Abhiyaan’, the growth monitoring devices are required to monitor the weight and height …