Structure of Presentation
•Maternal Anaemia Control Programme
•Adolescent Anaemia Control Programme
•Childhood Anaemia Control Programme
Maternal Anaemia Control programme.
Programme guidelines
•All AN mothers should be registered at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
•Haemoglobin level should be tested and recorded for all AN mothers during the 1st , 2nd and 3rd trimester.
•Mothers should be educated about maternal anaemia, the need for consuming iron rich foods, avoiding coffee, tea, consequences of anaemia on maternal and child health and regular consumption of IFA tablets.
•All pregnant women should be given 100 IFA Large tablets during 2nd trimester and continued till delivery
•Pregnant women with Hb level less than 11 grams should be given 200 IFA Large tablets during 2nd trimester. One in the morning after breakfast and one during night after dinner.
•Consumption of IFA tablets to be ensured.
•All postnatal mothers should be given 50 IFA tablets and ensure the consumption
•Annual estimation of IFA Large for HSC, PHC, municipality and HUD.
•Supply from HSC kit, PHC supply and supplies through other programmes like VKT, School Health, Mobile RCH Outreach etc
•At all times availability of IFA Large should be ensured in the field and institutions.
•Expiry of IFA tablets should be meticulously monitored.
•First In First Out principle to be followed strictly.
•Consumption of IFA tablets only after meals.
•IFA tablets should be kept safely at home.
Children should not have access to IFA tablets so as to preventing iron poisoning.
Risk Management
Albendazole administration guidelines for AN Mothers.
•All girls immediately before marriage should be given one albendazole tablet as marriage gift by the VHN.
•Pregnant women with the history of passing worms in stools should be given one albendazole tablet during 2nd or 3rd
trimester.
Monitoring.
•Supply monitoring.
•Stock monitoring through reports, inspection and field visits.
•Distribution monitoring through reports, inspection and field visits.
•Consumption monitoring through interaction with mothers and Community.
Adolescent Anaemia Control programme.
Programme guidelines
•All adolescent girls(11-19 yrs) should be listed, village wise / ward wise by the VHN and ICDS worker
•A self monitoring adolescent health card to be provided to each adolescent girl.
•A Link Volunteer (local adolescent girl) to be identified for each street / ward and trained and motivated for the distribution of the IFA
•Each Link Volunteer should have the list of her friends for distributing the IFA Large tablets.
•All adolescent girls should be given one IFA Large tablet on every Thursday by the Link Volunteer
•It should be recorded in the list by the Link volunteer and by the adolescent girl in the card
•Haemoglobin level should be tested before entering into the scheme and once in 6 months after consumption of the tablets • It should be recorded in the
Adolescent girls self monitoring health card.
•All teachers, mothers, SHG women and
adolescent girls should be educated about
anaemia, the need for consuming iron rich
foods, regular menstrual cycle, personality
development and improvement in studies,
avoiding coffee, tea and consequences of
anaemia and regular consumption of IFA
tablets.
• Consumption of IFA tablets to be ensured.
•Annual estimation of IFA Large for HSC, PHC, municipality and HUD.
•ICDS worker should be given one month requirement of IFA tablets.
•Link Volunteer should be provided with the required number of IFA tablets by the ICDS worker on every Thursday.
•Supply from HSC kit, PHC supply, Adolescent anaemia control programme and supplies through other programmes like VKT, School Health, Mobile RCH outreach etc.
•At all times availability of IFA Large should be ensured in the field
Risk management
•Expiry of IFA tablets should be meticulously monitored.
•First In First Out principle to be followed strictly.
•Consumption of IFA tablets only after dinner.
•IFA tablets should be kept safely at home.
Children should not have access to IFA tablets for preventing iron poisoning.
Albendazole administration guidelines
All adolescent girls should be given one albendazole tablet before entering into the scheme and once in 6 months.
Monitoring
•Supply monitoring
•Stock monitoring through reports, inspection and field visits.
•Distribution monitoring through reports, inspection and field visits.
•Consumption monitoring through interaction with adolescent girls, teachers and mothers.
