The program POSHAN-BARAN was implemented during July 2017 to March 2018 covering 63 villages of Shahabad and Kishanganj blocks in Baran, district.
A nutrition program successfully implemented recently in Baran district has proved that the synchronization between different government departments is an effective key to treat malnourished children at community level. The program outcome has come at the time when the union government has launched National Nutrition Mission (NNM), a convergence based nutrition program recently and state health department also, after successful completion of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) in Rajasthan, going to launch it’s second faze as IMAM soon.
The program POSHAN-BARAN was implemented during July 2017 to March 2018 covering 63 villages of Shahabad and Kishanganj blocks in Baran, district. Out of 6304 children (6-59 months) screened during the program, 341 Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children were enrolled for treatment. The program was implemented by Fight Hunger Foundation (FHH) with the partnership of the National Health Mission and Integrated Children Development Services
“Out of those, 162 children or 58% of total children found with SAM were recovered after completion of the program,” Dr Meeta Mathur, Head, Nutrition & Health at FHH said. “74 children who did not improve, were referred to MTCs and 44 children could not continue the program for various reasons,” she added. As per the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), in Baran district stunting and underweight rate among children is 40.2% and 41.1% respectively. The major concerns on wasting and severely wasting rates are 28.5% and 10.6% which are higher than the state data which is 23.0% and 8.6% respectively.
“This program broke the perception that the malnutrition can be treated by only drugs, and dispensaries. It has proved that combination of ‘three A’ including Asha, Anganwadi and ANM is the key to treat malnutrition ” Naveen Jain, Mission Director, NHM said.
SETTING AN EXAMPLE
Principal secretary for women and child development department Roli Singh said that the POSHAN-BARAN program can be used as an example of block or district level convergence action plan when implementing the NNM in the state.
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