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There was a large crowd of women under a tree in Lahan municipality-20, Brahmin Gorchhari on Tuesday morning. Mahesh Prasad Chowdhury, the city chief of Lahan municipality, arrived in this crowd. He greeted everyone, the participating women also returned their greetings.
The city police and municipal employees who were present at the event venue started giving the pokas stored in the square under the tree to the hands of Mayor Choudhary. An employee took turns saying their names, Mayor Chaudhary handed over the bags to those women.
was in Pokama, ten kilos of rice, one kilo of lentils, peas, chickpeas, salt, soybeans, one liter of cooking oil. And the recipients of this foodstuff were the pregnant and lactating women here. 50 women of this ward received food items on Tuesday.
The municipality has been providing nutritious food to pregnant women and pregnant women on the 22nd of every month for the past three years. For this, the municipality has conducted the 'food delivery and pregnant nutrition program'.
According to the municipality, more than 1200 women from all 24 wards of the municipality have benefited from this program in these three years. The municipality has adopted a policy of providing these nutritious food items only to pregnant and post-partum women who come to the municipality's health institution and undergo regular check-ups.
Because of this, pregnant and post-partum women have come within the reach of health institutions. They have developed the habit of coming to health institutions for check-ups after they are pregnant and give birth. Senior Anami Rita Yadav of the municipality said that now women come to get TD injections, take different types of medicine and get regular health check-ups every month.
Mayor Chaudhary said that this program was conducted to connect pregnant and post-partum women with health institutions and to raise health awareness. He says that this program has become very effective now.
'Especially for women from poor families, it was not necessary to take care and eat nutritious food during pregnancy and childbirth, it causes malnutrition in the child and problems in the mother's health,' he said, 'But, this program has raised awareness among women, this is our aim.'
City Chief Choudhary said that there is a large population of poor and Dalits in the city and this program will be continued to improve the nutrition of pregnant women.
