Nashonuma Initiative To Be Upgraded: Sania Nishtar
ISLAMABAD: A workshop was stayed weekday to require stock of the Ehsaas program’s progress, successes and lessons learned across fourteen districts to upmarket it nationwide.
Representatives from the sector groups of Ehsaas Nashonuma in a geographic area, Sindh, Balochistan, KP, AJK, and GB participated in the workshop beside consultants from the globe Food Programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on financial condition Alleviation and Social Protection legislator Dr. Sania Nishtar same the central had planned to proportion Ehsaas Nashonuma to beat common health issues like flying, skinny and overweight in kids below 2 years ancient, particularly in underprivileged areas of the country.
She same the govt would extend it to the full country, particularly to underprivileged areas. Keeping visible the tough terrains across Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), and Azad Jammu and Cashmere (AJK), Ehsaas is additionally trying into the chance of introducing mobile Ehsaas Nashonuma centers, she added.
More than sixty-six,000 pregnant and fresh ladies and kids below 2 years ancient are registered for nutrition support below the Ehsaas program.
The main purpose of the program is to forestall flying, skinny, overweight, and alternative complications largely prevailing in pregnant and fresh ladies and kids from poor families in backward areas United Nations agency, because of their pressing financial condition, couldn’t have access to correct food and, as a result, develop health complications.
At present, there square measure as several as fifty nutritionary (Nashonuma) centers in fourteen districts of geographic area, Sindh, KP, Balochistan, Islamabad, AJK, and GB that square measure thought of to possess scrawny populations.