Healthcare program

Public Health care and Nutrition programs in Pakistan

Laraib fizza Public health awareness & education:

01 Public Healthcare Programs in
Pakistan.

Malnutrition is a serious issue in Pakistani society.

During the past few years, many nutritional
programmes have been initiated by the
governmental and nongovernmental
organizations.
Some of these programmes focus on raising
awareness among the masses while others focus
on either directly supplying nutrients to the people
or fortification of dietary components
The root of the problem-illiteracy, poverty, and
socioeconomic deprivation-is still being
neglected. These programmes have not yet been
able to take control of the situation and Pakistan
is still far behind other countries when it comes to
nutrition
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Nutrition Health Care Program

1. School Health Program

Some of the current 2. Micronutrient Initiative
Nutrition Health Care
3. Tawana Pakistan Project
programs are given
below : 4. Nutrition wing, Minister
health
5. Other programs
Nutrition International has Severe undernutrition can
been working in Pakistan have long-term effects on
since 2001 to improve the children’s cognitive
health of people in need, development, scholastic
especially women and achievement and economic
children, through better productivity in adulthood
nutrition.
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Provinces

Khyber Pakhtunkha ; in
Sindh due to high drought 04 unexpectedly high in
malnuriishment as there is
02 faces many malnurishment
and shortage of water .
massive amount of stun

 There were 14 droughts

in balochistan which
01 Punjab have face massive
severely affects the
people of that area ... i.e
disaster effects durring
flood ... i.e Rajanpur,
03
chagai, washuk,, panjgur taunsa, DG Khan etc.
etc.
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M.I Initiative

Micronutrient Initiative (MI) works

Iron & Folic with the government and the UN to Meal & Salt
ACid eliminate deficiencies of
This can be seen in the statistics micronutrients such as iron, iodine, Salt iodization has also increased
where 60% of the women are folic acid, vitamin A, and zinc to 70%..
currently being reached by iron and
folic acid supplementation
programmes 4 2 1 3 5
Vitamin A Polio

more than 95% of children under the Vast amounts of vitamin A capsules
age of 5 years are receiving vitamin are distributed during the polio
A supplementation.. vaccination campaign being run by
the government.
03 Nutrition Wings,Minister Health
supporting nongovernmental
organizations by way of public-private
partnership, the nutrition wing of
ministry of health also conducts various
programmes of its own including
screeninge.
evaluation for various nutritional
deficiencies, vitamin A supplementation
programme, flour fortification, and food
safety and quality control.s.
This extensive programme targets all
aspects of nutrition including maternal
and child, infant, adolescent, adult, and
elderly nutrition.
.The major foci of the programme's
work are low birth weight babies,
preschool malnutrition, iron deficiency in
mothers and children. In addition it also
works to promote awareness regarding
breastfeeding and maternal nutritional
status and iodized salt.
04 Family healthcare Program
Begining
This programme was initiated by the
government in 1994 with the aim of
providing primary health care services
at the doorstep and improving the
health conditions in rural areas. .
Average
This programme has employed more
than 100,000 trained lady health
workers who live in rural communities
Benefits
This programme reaches to more than
65% of the inhabited area of Pakistan
and provides free of cost services to
90 million people.
Their task is to visit different homes in
their localities and provide various
primary health care services with
special focus on maternal and child
health.
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Pakistan
Many academic institutions, especially
medical schools, and nongovernmental
organizations run small level nutritional
programmes which work by providing free
healthy food or creating nutritional
awareness among the masses.
 Tuberculosis control program
 Malaria control Program
 Disease surveillance
 HIV/AIDS control program
 Dengue control Programs
Most of these programmes work in
collaboration with either the international
organizations like United Nations, World
Health Organization, UNICEF, or with the
government.
Healthcare Sehat Sahulat Program is a milestone
towards social welfare reforms; ensuring
that the identified under-privileged citizens
across the country get access to their
entitled medical health care in a swift and
dignified manner without any financial
obligations.
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The project provided freshly prepared meals in the This programme brought together an academic
afternoon to 418,000 girls and trained women in institution, numerous nongovernmental
the community to run nutrition awareness organizations, and the government for its
programmes. implementation..
01 08

significant drop in malnutrition, stunting, and 02 07 Almost 94,000 women were trained through this
wasting was seen in the girls in target primary programme to spread nutritional awareness in their
schools.. communities

03 06
There was also an increase in the attendance of .provide access to safe water and sanitation
girls at these schools. facilities; and
04 05

TPP is being implemented in 26 most .reduce gender and social inequalities;

malnourished districts of Pakistan with a targeted increase enrollment and retention, and reduce
coverage of 650,000 girls aged five to 12,. absenteeism of girls
05 School Healthcare Program

sponsord by

School health programme is jointly

managed by the Ministry of Education, Aims
Government of Pakistan and UNESCO

Result important component of this programme is

it has reported an increase in the
attendance of students and educational
performance.
Program starts
the School Nutrition Programme, which
provides relevant nutritional information to
the students and makes healthy, balanced
food available to students of schools located
in poor areas.

It began back in the 1970s, when the

doctors were deployed in the government
schools and were asked to treat the sick
children. During the 1980s, the programme
moved on to screening for health problems
among students and working to prevent
and treat diseases.
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