 Malnutrition is predominant in interior rural areas. The Sangha has come forward with a successful scheme to arrest this problem of malnutrition - the NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION THERAPY Scheme. A fixed time slot is kept apart exclusively for Mother & Child Healthcare Programme under the Mobile Healthcare Unit. Thus it becomes easy to identify the malnourished children and to maintain their Road-to-Health Charts, who are being regularly provided with ready-mix Nutrition Supplementation Therapy (NST) packets at nominal charge.
 These food packets, prepared as per the approved CINI formula, are taken by these children everyday along with their regular meals. It has been observed that by taking the nutritional packets, malnourished children gained weight.
The Centres of Gopalpur and Sikrakulingram were initially selected for the NST Programme. Observing its usefulness and success, the Sangha plans to extend this programme to its other centres too. The mothers are also advised on the diets of their children with the locally, nutritional food and vegetables.
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