Ministry urges action to reduce malnutrition

27/05/2006 -- 9:20 PM

Ha Noi (VNA) - The Health Ministry launched the National Nutrition Day in Ha Noi on May 27 with the aim of raising people's awareness of the necessity of ingesting sufficient nutrients to stay healthy. The event carries the message, "Vitamin A, iron and iodine are necessary for health, brainpower, beauty and the quality of life". The Institute of Nutrition reported that 32.7 percent of infants and between 50-60 percent of breast feeding mothers in Viet Nam face vitamin A deficiency. Therefore, the Institute of Nutrition advised that preventing malnutrition should go together with preventing vitamin A, iron and iodine deficiency.-Enditem
Send this page	Print

HCM City steps up anti-smoking campaigns (26/05/2006)

German foundation donates medical equipment (26/05/2006)

Overseas Vietnamese support central province's poor blind people (25/05/2006)

Local bird flu vaccine to be tested in August (25/05/2006)

Pharmaceutical and medical exhibition opens in Ha Noi (24/05/2006)

Ha Noi prevents foot and mouth disease (23/05/2006)

British NGO launches reproductive health project in Da Nang (23/05/2006)

UNFPA helps Viet Nam improve reproductive health (23/05/2006)

Ethnic minority midwives get training centre (22/05/2006)

Three medical institutes to be set up (20/05/2006)