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Odisha public health and welfare initiatives

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The Odisha government has implemented several initiatives focused on nutrition, public health, and social welfare. Initially, the state expanded the Odisha Poshan Mission (OPM) to 18 priority districts to combat malnutrition among children, mothers, and adolescents. This mission-mode approach targeted high-burden areas and Maoist-affected regions, utilizing the Nutrition Tracker for digital monitoring and upgrading infrastructure through the Samruddha Anganwadi Yojana. Building on these efforts, the government launched the ‘Angan Ka Utsav’ campaign to strengthen health awareness and early childhood development across over 74,000 Anganwadi Centres. This campaign included increasing clothing allowances for approximately 1.48 lakh Anganwadi workers and helpers and introducing the DIPTI digital platform for automated electricity bill management. During the ninth Rashtriya Poshan Maah celebrations, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi noted that over 46 lakh activities were conducted across the state. He emphasized the importance of family involvement, particularly from fathers, to support nutrition during a child’s first 1,000 days. He credited days, while crediting frontline workers, including Anganwadi, auxiliary nurse midwife, and ASHA workers, workers for improving healthcare indicators such as child immunization rates, institutional deliveries, rates and the reduction institutional deliveries. In response to recent data showing a maternal mortality ratio of infant 153 per lakh live births and maternal an infant mortality rates. Parallel welfare efforts were also introduced in rate of 30 per 1,000 live births, Chief Minister Majhi has ordered an urgent, mission-mode overhaul of the agricultural sector through state’s healthcare and social sectors under the ‘Sambandh’ campaign, which encourages farmer enrollment in cooperative societies like Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) PRAYASS initiative. He directed the Health and Large-sized Adivasi Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPCS) Family Welfare Department to provide essential services like seeds, banking, implement targeted campaigns to reduce maternal, infant, and insurance. Additionally, the state announced a sugarcane input subsidy of Rs 15,000 per acre neonatal deaths, specifically improving medical access in remote and conducted large-scale recruitment of administrative rural areas. To combat childhood malnutrition, including stunting and medical officers. wasting, officials have been instructed to strengthen the ‘Suposhita Odisha’ campaign and implement stricter quality surveillance on nutritional supplements distributed through Anganwadi centers.

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