JSP Foundation Extends A Helping Hand To Odisha Govt’s VHND Initiative

Bhubaneswar: Foldable couches with partition screens were provided to 50 Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day (VHND) points under Banarpal and Chhendipada Blocks by JSP Foundation. They were handed over to Anganawadi workers by the District Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain, IAS, in the presence of Chief District Medical Officer Dr Trilochan Pradhan, District Social Welfare Officer, Karna Murmu and District Programme Manager, NHM Deepak Kumar Mohanty and Puspalata Satapathy, GM, CSR, JSP at
Collectorate Angul.

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 yrs.) and adolescent girls.  Regular ante-natal and post-natal check-ups are the most important interventions under the VHND Programme.

More than 5000 pregnant women and lactating mothers will benefit from this initiative. JSP Foundation under its Vastalya programme has been partnering with the state govt. and district administrations in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to ensure substantial reductions of Infant Mortality Rate and Mother Mortality Rate through multifaceted measures like registration of pregnancy, ante-natal care, post-natal care, vaccination, institutional delivery and nutrition supplement.