A Maharashtra minister told the state Legislative Council that over 4,000 children were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition in Mumbai, this year till August, reported the news agency PTI. On Thursday, December 23 during the Upper House of the state legislature, Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur brought this information to light.
This happened while she was answering a question asked by Congress MLC Bhai Jagtap. She was quoted by the report elaborating on how as of August 2021, 4,194 children were found suffering from acute malnutrition in Mumbai.
Thakur further remarked that the maximum cases were found in Dharavi, Malvani, Mankhurd and Govandi areas. Therefore, a nutrition rehabilitation centre was set up in Mumbai’s Shatabdi Hospital on August 20.
This was undertaken to provide medication to ensure that children are brought out of acute malnutrition. Apart from this, she also mentioned that other schemes were also being implemented to enhance the health of the malnourished children as well as their mothers.
In other developments, in the Ideal Mumbai Public Health Manifesto, put together by several initiatives, it was brought to light that in the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) scheme, in 2019-20, 2,53,928 children were screened at Anganwadis. In the manifesto, it is further mentioned that for 2020-21 in an RTI reply that they received, zero children were screened during the coronavirus pandemic.
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