National Nutrition Programme

National Nutrition Programme

Its mission is to achieve nutritional well-being for all people to maintain a healthy life and contribute to the socio-economic development of the country through improved nutrition program implementation in collaboration with relevant sectors. Nutrition interventions are cost-effective investments for a country. The nutrition section of the Child Health Division is in charge of the national nutrition program for improving the nutritional status of children, pregnant women, and adolescents. The Government of Nepal is dedicated to making sure that its population have access to appropriate food, health care, and nutrition in accordance with international and national declarations and national health policies. All residents have the right to food, health, and nutrition under the 2015 Constitution. Undernourishment and hunger frequently cause a vicious cycle of illnesses and malnutrition that impairs intellectual and cognitive growth as well as productivity and social development.

The following are the program's specific goals

• Enhancing maternal nutrition
• To decrease protein-energy malnutrition in women of reproductive age and children under five
• To lower the incidence of anemia in mothers, children, and adolescent girls
• To end vitamin A and iodine deficient illnesses and maintain eradication
• To lessen the prevalence of intestinal worms in children and expectant mothers
• The prevalence of low birth weight should be decreased
• To increase home food security so that everyone can have access to, usage, and access to the food they need for a healthy life
• To lower child mortality, enhance nutritional status, and control infectious illnesses
• Urging people to adopt healthy eating practices in order to raise everyone's nutritional status
• At the community level, behavior change communication, nutrition education
• To coordinate nutrition-related health sector programs with the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Initiative.
• Strengthening analysis to track and assess the nutrition situation

According to the current Joint Action Plan (2071/72 to 2075/76),

• Every primary school should have a first aid kit box with a refilling mechanism.
• Deworming of students in Grades 1–10 is done every two years.
• Yearly health examination
• There are soap-filled hand washing stations in every school.
• Bathrooms in every school.
• Mobilization of a youth group around concerns of nutrition and health.
• Instruct the management committees of your schools on how to facilitate health and nutrition programs.
• Supplementing with iron ollic acid in adolescent girls.