Hospital Chief Dr. Shivnath Yadav said that the hospital was declared nutrition-oriented to create awareness among the community after fulfilling 13 out of 16 indicators of the nutrition-friendly declaration.
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Yogi Narharinath Basic Hospital located here has been declared the first nutrition-oriented health institution in the district. It has been declared a nutrition-oriented health institution with the aim of ending malnutrition by taking the concept of four meals every day to every household.
This is the oldest hospital after the district hospital with an MBBS doctor. The announcement was organized under the chairmanship of Local Health Management Committee Chairman Katak Bahadur Budha and was attended by Rural Municipality Vice-Chairman Kamal Kumar Shah, Health Branch Representative Sirjana Mahat, Women, Children and Senior Citizen Branch Chief Sarita Bista, Women's Health Volunteers, Mothers' Groups, Teachers, Students, Representatives of Political Parties and Locals.
Hospital Chief Dr. Shivnath Yadav said that the hospital was declared nutrition-oriented to create awareness in the community after completing 13 out of 16 indicators of the nutrition-friendly declaration. He said that more than 90 percent success has been achieved as 13 indicators have been completed. He said that the remaining indicators will also be completed within a year and declared nutrition-friendly.
According to him, even though the service area of the hospital is the entire rural municipality, ward number 3 has been considered as the basis for nutrition-oriented. He said that the hospital still needs to improve the indicators of feeding iron pills to all adolescent girls, reducing the number of low birth weight babies to zero, regular growth monitoring of all children and mandatory 8 antenatal check-ups for all pregnant women.
The Empowered Girls Project, which is working in the health sector to improve the nutritional status of Narharinath, conducted a survey of the nutritional status of 538 children aged 6 months to 6 years from Ward No. 1 Kotwada to Ward No. 4 Gothi two years ago, and found 43 malnourished, while this year's survey found only 17 with moderate malnutrition, said Program Officer Himal Acharya.
