AnaemiaMukt Bharat Index
- The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare along with UNICEF launched the AnaemiaMukt Bharat index.
- The AnaemiaMukt Bharat is an initiative to reduce the prevalence of anaemia in India.
- Haryana topped the index or the anaemia with a score of 46.7.
- The index was released during the eighth governing body meeting of NationalHealth Mission in Chandigarh.
- The state of Haryana has achieved 93% of immunization in the year 2019-20.
- It is one of the 11 states of India that has achieved the national health policy targets well before 2020.
- The institute deliveries of the state have increased to 93.7 percentage.
- The scheme aims to reduce the prevalence of anaemia in India.
- It provides bi weekly iron Folic acid supplementation to all under five children through Asha workers. Also, it provides biannual Deworming for children and adolescents.
- The scheme also establishes institutional mechanisms for advanced research in anaemia. It also focuses on non-nutritional causes of anaemia.
