Proper application of nutritional services is essential

The Dhaka Times Desk Due to Bangladesh's high population, malnutrition is common. Therefore proper application of nutrition services is more important.

For a country with a large population like Bangladesh, 'health' or 'nutrition' is a very important aspect. A country stands on its healthy and conscious population. Health or nutrition plays a role in creating that healthy population. 'Today's child is tomorrow's future'. Proper physical nutrition and development in childhood and adolescence can lay the foundation for his future life. Taking these into consideration, the 'National Nutrition Service' project was launched with domestic and international support. Over the years, these projects and programs are undertaken by spending money in meetings and committees, but their ineffectiveness soon blossoms, and they become premature! But there is no alternative to the physical nutrition of children and adolescents in building the future nation. Despite knowing and understanding these things, the 'Nutrition Scheme' or 'National Nutrition Service' scheme is not progressing as per the target. - Daily Prothom Alo Online.

Despite the budget allocation of crores of rupees, the people of the country (children and adolescents) are not getting the services they need. Discussion Project-proposal amount of good words, rules and ethics, in terms of requirements, the allocated money is not getting the proper results. People - poor, uneducated, malnourished children - teenagers are the future signal of the country. The main expenditure account is being exhausted or shown only through the relevant officials-employees or field level training, but there is a need to think anew about how much repeated training of relevant officials-employees is needed to ensure proper food intake of children and adolescents.

We all get a good enough idea about food and nutrition in primary education books. Proper nutrition of very small newborns or severely malnourished young children, however, requires specialist physicians and health workers. Apart from this, the problem can be solved by ensuring proper supply and marketing of food quality according to age. It is possible to reach the desired goal by ensuring the physical development and growth of all children and adolescents in the early stages by providing nutrition to the child from birth, even from the mother's stomach.

Hospitals, health care institutions to government primary schools need to be covered under this nutrition service program. Necessary nutrition can be provided in neonatal wards, infant wards under the category of child malnutrition, as well as providing part of the government allocation in primary schools, ensuring a balanced nutritious meal for children and adolescents at least once a day as tiffin.

Apart from this, iron and vitamin supplements should also be covered under this nutrition scheme. In our health care system, vitamins, iron supplementation along with health education of pregnant mothers are provided as usual in government hospitals.

No one can escape responsibility for the failure of this program, starting with the high-ranking government or private officials involved in the nutrition program. It is also not a good idea to unilaterally blame someone by accusing them of incoordination. One thing to remember is that if a man has good intentions, there is hardly anything he cannot do. We have to work for the good by avoiding the path of personal greed and thinking about the physical nutrition and development of children and adolescents as well as the future of the country and nation.

Malnutrition, illiteracy, poverty—all these revolve in a cycle. Malnutrition-poverty such as illiteracy leads to ignorance; Similarly illiterate population increases the burden of poverty and malnutrition. It is for this reason that the nation must be saved from the scourge of undernutrition by mobilizing all nutrition programs undertaken and on an urgent basis.

We were not born just to eat and wear ourselves. We don't have the right to steal, steal, and steal from others. We don't even have the right to pay personal expenses without using government or international allocated money for people. We have to do good, to awaken our identity as human beings. With a 'healthy body and a healthy mind', the country's children and adolescents can smooth their future path and devote themselves to their work as a worthy child of the motherland.

It is our duty to free ourselves from the darkness of illiteracy and work to build a fair country and nation. The uneducated, foodless, poverty-stricken common people need to be helped and made human and included in the mainstream, so that no one can be a burden on the country anymore.

There is no substitute for education and nutrition to prevent excessive population growth. By depriving them and increasing the burden of the helpless, none of us will be spared from its explosion one day. In this case, therefore, the responsibility of the educated people of the country is the most.

# Author: Tripti Bala- Storyteller, Physician.