{"id":97295,"date":"2021-03-23T21:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=97295"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:40:30","slug":"jharkhand-launched-saamar-campaign-to-fight-malnutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jharkhand-launched-saamar-campaign-to-fight-malnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand launched &#8216;SAAMAR campaign&#8217; to fight malnutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Jharkhand government has launched the SAAMAR campaign to tackle malnutrition in the state.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About SAAMAR Campaign:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full-Form: <\/strong>SAAMAR is an acronym for Strategic Action for Alleviation of Malnutrition and Anaemia Reduction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>The SAAMAR campaign aims to identify anaemic women and malnourished children. Further, the campaign brings together various departments to effectively deal with the major malnutrition problem in the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Features of the campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAAMAR campaign has been launched with a 1000 days target. Under this annual surveys will be conducted to track the progress.<\/li>\n<li>Every Anganwadi Centres will be engaged to identify malnourished children. Subsequently, they will be treated at the Malnutrition Treatment Centres.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, anaemic women will also be identified and will be referred to health centres in serious cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why was this campaign launched?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>According to NFHS-4 data, Jharkhand has some worrying level of malnutrition. The NFHS-4 data reveals the following trends.\n<ul>\n<li>Every second child in the state is stunted and underweight<\/li>\n<li>Every third child is affected by stunting<\/li>\n<li>Every 10th child is affected by severe wasting<\/li>\n<li>Apart from that, around 70% of children are anaemic in the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hence, the intervention was required with a \u2018different approach to reduce malnutrition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/jharkhand-saamar-campaign-explained-7235270\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Jharkhand government has launched the SAAMAR campaign to tackle malnutrition in the state. About SAAMAR Campaign: Full-Form: SAAMAR is an acronym for Strategic Action for Alleviation of Malnutrition and Anaemia Reduction. Aim: The SAAMAR campaign aims to identify anaemic women and malnourished children. Further, the campaign brings together various departments&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jharkhand-launched-saamar-campaign-to-fight-malnutrition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jharkhand launched &#8216;SAAMAR campaign&#8217; to fight malnutrition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9,959],"tags":[1291],"class_list":["post-97295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-hunger","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777959,"cached_date":1702969842},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}