Shillong, Sep 16: ‘Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan’ (Healthy Women, Strong Family Campaign), a national health and nutrition campaign jointly led by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD), aligned with Poshan Maah (Nutrition Month) will be launched at NEIGRIHMS on Wednesday.
The campaign will conclude on October 2. Writer and journalist Patricia Mukhim will launch the campaign in a special inaugural function at NEIGRIHMS.
The focus of the campaign will be on women’s and children’s health, adolescent girls, maternal health, preventive, promotive, diagnostic and curative services.
NEIGRIHMS Director Dr Nalin Mehta added that the institute is committed to organising health camps in outreach areas, carry out screening for non‑communicable diseases (such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity) and cancer (cervical, breast, oral), anaemia, tuberculosis, etc.
Since NEIGRIHMS has the capacity in terms of specialists and infrastructure to lead and support quality screening, treatment referrals and capacity building, he affirmed that his team would work hand in hand with the state government to complement and strengthen their efforts to ensure a successful and effective campaign.
