A two-day review-cum-orientation workshop on the summer program was inaugurated under the chairmanship of Rajeshwari B, Director General, State Nutrition Mission and Shashi Prakash Jha, Director, Social Welfare. It may be noted that the implementation of the summer campaign program was reviewed in 12 districts of the state. During the review, directions were given to the District Social Welfare Officer, Child Development Project Officer, Female Supervisor and Medical Officers present by the Director General to speed up the work.
Emphasizing timely identification and treatment of malnourished children, the Director, Social Welfare gave important information on distribution of THR, availability of essential medicines and treatment and counselling facilities for extremely severely malnourished children by entering them in the digital platform under the summer programme.
Under the summer programme, so far more than 25,000 identified severely malnourished children have been successfully managed and treated at the Anganwadi level (STC). To make the summer program successful, cooperation of all various departments is being taken smoothly.
During the two-day training, technical training will be provided by UNICEF and SCOE, RIMS on management of children younger than 6 months and various components of the summer campaign.