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SAAMAR Campaign by Jharkhand government

Part of: GS Prelims and GS – II – Policies and interventions

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SAAMAR (Strategic Action for Alleviation of Malnutrition and Anemia Reduction) campaign has been launched by Jharkhand government to tackle malnutrition in the state.

Key takeaways

The campaign aims to identify anaemic women and malnourished children and converge various departments to effectively deal with the problem
It has a 1000 days target, under which annual surveys will be conducted to track the progress.
To tackle severe acute malnutrition children, every Anganwadi Centres will be engaged to identify these children and subsequently will be treated at the Malnutrition Treatment Centres.
In the same process the anaemic women will also be listed and will be referred to health centres in serious cases.
Angawadi’s Sahayika and Sevika will take them to the nearest Health Centre where they will be checked again and then registered on the portal of State Nutrition Mission.

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