Heera Lal, District Magistrate, Banda – Uttar Pradesh talks about Bal Poshan Satra, which harnesses community resources to help malnourished children with special focus on SAM cases

“It doesn’t mean much, but it means a lot”, malnutrition remains to be a leading risk factor for health loss for all ages across India (Lancet 2019). While the overall burden of malnutrition has gone down, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) continues to rise. A national population-based study shows that the SAM burden for Uttar Pradesh (UP) has increased from 5.1 per cent (2005-06) to 6 per cent (2015-16).

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