Malnutrition and related diseases is a very serious issue in 184 deprived districts across the country and the Centre will launch a campaign to check it, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said. “The government is very serious and sensitive on pre-mature deaths due to malnutrition, especially in 184 deprived districts in the country, including Rajasthan,” Vardhan said replying to media questions during a video press conference from the national capital. The Health Minister said the government will undertake a massive “andolan” (campaign) of one week on malnutrition which causes anaemia and other diseases and malnutrition management will be taken up in a detailed programme to be announced in Delhi on October 9, he said. To a question that Rajasthan’s free medicine and diagnostic services in government hospitals have allegedly slowed down during the new BJP government, the minister said for better medical care, a massive Universal Health Assurance Mission (UHAM) was in the offing which will cater to all needs of the people, especially the poor.

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