JSP Foundation supports Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Day Points

TBB BUREAU

ANGUL, APR 25, 2023

JSP Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) provided foldable couches with partition screens to 50 Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Day (VHND) points under Banarpal and Chhendipada Blocks of Angul district.

The VHND programme are conducted regularly for antenatal and postnatal checkup of  pregnant women and lactating mothers, basic health services for children aged upto 5 years, and adolescent girls at Anganwadi Centres by ICDS & Health Department functionaries. This was a felt need addressed by the JSP Foundation as a responsible partner of the District Administration to reduce the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).

The foldable couches with partition screens were handed over to Anganawadi workers by Angul Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain, in the presence of Chief District Medical Officer Dr. Trilochan Pradhan, District Social Welfare Officer Karna Murmu, District Programme Manager, NHM Deepak Kumar Mohanty, and JSP GM (CSR) Puspalata Satapathy at Angul Collectorate.

Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain in a tweet thanked JSP Foundation for providing foldable couches with partition screen to 50 VHND Points of Angul. This support will add the value for conducting quality VHND at Anganwadi centres, said the Collector.

VHND is a joint initiative to strengthen the ongoing Mother and Child Health Services by the Department of Health and ICDS. The objective of the VHND is to provide essential and comprehensive health and nutrition services to pregnant women, lactating mothers, children (0-5 years) and adolescent girls.  Regular antenatal and postnatal Check-ups are the most important interventions under the VHND Programme. This support will facilitate providing better antenatal and postnatal care during the VHND sessions. Under this initiative more than 5,000 pregnant women and lactating mothers will be benefited.

JSP Foundation, under its Vastalya programme, has been partnering with the State Governments and District Administrations in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to ensure substantial reductions of IMR and MMR through multifaceted measures like registration of pregnancy, antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), vaccination, institutional delivery, and nutrition supplement.