Pregnant women, lactating mothers and clinical
patients will benefit from two nutrition improvement projects signed between
the Ministry of Health and Abbott Company at a ceremony today in Hà Nội. — VNS
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Pregnant
women, lactating mothers and clinical patients will benefit from two nutrition
improvement projects signed between the Ministry of Health and Abbott Company
at a ceremony today in Hà Nội.
“The two
projects will contribute to the improvement of the nutrition status of the
people, especially to the faster decline of stunting malnutrition in Việt Nam
and the enhancement of inpatients’ health and clinical treatment efficiency in
hospitals,” Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Việt Tiến said at the signing
ceremony.
The
project on improvement of the nutrition status for pregnant women and lactating
mothers will focus its activities on developing a National Nutrition Guideline.
It will also help to increase knowledge about nutrition in healthcare staff and
members of the Việt Nam Women’s Union through implementation of the National
Nutrition Guideline for pregnant women and lactating mothers.
The
project on improvement of clinical nutrition quality in hospitals in Việt Nam
will focus on developing a quality improvement programme (QIP) for clinical
nutrition to be implemented in hospitals.
The
National Strategy on Nutrition for the period 2011-2020 and vision to 2030
approved by the Prime Minister has identified that an important direction to
improve people’s health is providing early nutrition intervention for women of reproductive
age, pregnant women and children during the golden period of the first 1,000
days.
The two
projects will help the health ministry implement the National Strategy on
Nutrition and enhance inpatients’ health and clinical treatment efficiency in
hospitals in Việt Nam.
A report
of the National Institute of Nutrition showed that the rate of childhood
stunting in 2014 was 24.9 per cent, the rate of zinc deficiency in pregnant
women was 80.3 per cent and that of anemia was 32.8 per cent.
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