Boost to Poshan Abhiyan, 12 Model Village Health Sanitation & Nutrition Day Sites Opened

A Correspondent

DHUBRI: Poshan Abhiyan gets a boost as 12 Model Village Health Sanitation & Nutrition Day (VHSND) sites were opened by Piramal Foundation in Dhubri district with active support from the district Health and Social Welfare department. Further, in order to get optimum result from Poshan Maah campaigns, Dhubri District Social welfare Officer, Kishori Barua instructed all the CDPOs to organise a project level orientation urgently for Anganwadi workers.

With the convergence of Dhubri district National Health Mission, ICDS, Piramal Foundation and other line departments extended all support to open 12 Model VHSND sites at every health blocks of Dhubri district as per NITI AYOG ADT programme recently.

A Piramal Foundation source informed that in the baseline survey conducted by all the Block Transformation Officers (BTOs) of Piramal Foundation, it was revealed that the basic facility at the Anganwadi centres was poor and there were no patient examination bed with privacy, hand wash corner, counseling corner, breastfeeding corner at the sites and there prevailed a lack of coordination among the ANMs, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers (AAA).

However, during the month of May this year, Piramal Foundation launched the ADT programme in the district and the demand for the health and wellness centres, a model site for VHSND were fulfilled in August this year.