The secretary of Women and Child development has stated that, “ the National Technical Board on Nutrition (NTBN) has approved guidelines proposed by the Ministry for severe acute malnutrition” . Top nutrition panel of India has recommended that severely malnourished children should be fed with freshly cooked food prepared from locally available cereals, pulses & vegetables, and distributed by anganwadi centres. This is the first-ever guidelines of the country for nutritional management of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
Up till now, the government had only put in place guidelines for the hospitalisation of severely wasted children who develop medical complications and those norms were made public in 2011. The guidelines outline the role of anganwadi workers and auxillary nurse midwives (ANMs) in identifying severely wasted children, segregating those with…
