With an aim to address issues of adolescents and provide solutions to their problems ‘Sathiya Salah’ App was launched here on Friday. The app has been launched to help selected peer educators who could handle issues in villages
While talking to mediapersons on Friday, Project Director of NHM Faiz Ahmed Kidwai said the app was launched during the two-day regional review meeting in the city. In the meeting apart from the State, representatives of Odisha, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand participated. Detail review of five states was done in the meeting.
The number of adolescents in the census of 2011 was 253 million and to address their issues Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram was developed.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched a health programme for adolescents, in the age group of 10-19 years, which would target their nutrition, reproductive health and substance abuse, among other issues.
The programme called Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram was launched on January 7, 2014.
Under the weekly iron folic acid supplementation programme the state had achieved 72 per cent which was praised while Odisha and Jharkhand with 7 and 31 percent coverage respectively were categorized at unsatisfactorily.
In the state the programme is operational across the 51 districts and in 11 marked RKSK districts treatment is provided to around 100 adolescents per month at the Primary Health Centres. For every village four peer educators called Sathiya has been selected. Sathiya helps in various issues of adolescents in the age group of 10 to 19 years and the main focus is to provide correct information.
State Government with the support of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has developed the App.
The App could be easily downloaded in computers and mobile phones.