New software to collect info on child malnutrition

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Food is being given to the children suffering from malnutrition and a public awareness campaign is also conducted at Aganwadi centre. In spite of that the children are not getting full food and mother’s milk.

Nutrition rehabilitation centres have been opened to eliminate mall nutrition. But in the absence of awareness the children are suffering from mall nutrition. Hence, a software is being prepared to make detailed information about the children suffering from malnutrition by the Woman Child Development department, that information would be fed in the software and the whole detail about the child can be had on a click.

The weight of every child would be recorded to know that whether the child is recovering from mall nutrition. The treatment given by the doctors to the children would be monitored by the software which would indicate whether the dose given by the doctor is correct or not.

The child suffering from mall nutrition is admitted in the NRC for two weeks. His weight would be taken every day and its chart would be made which would indicate whether the weight of child is increasing. Complete profile of the child would be prepared. A photo of the child would be taken why admitting him in the hospital and at the time of discharge it would be tallied.

A Mahila Arogya Samiti consisting of Asha and Aganwadi workers would be formed in which examination of haemoglobin, malaria, pregnancy during alumni and ureic would be conducted. An on line details of all these examinations would be uploaded on the software to indicate which examinations were conducted in the hospital of the state.

The software would also indicate whether the children admitted in the NRC are improving.

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