WHO to establish Stabilization Centre in Children Hospital

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WHO to establish Stabilization Centre in Children Hospital

The role of WHO to establish Stabilization Centre in Children Hospital, to control severe malnutrition situation, is appreciable said Prof Dr. Faisal Tahir, Dean Children Hospital. He was addressing at a concluding session of a 4-Day training workshop on “Impatient Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition with Medical Complications”. The training was jointly arranged with WHO, UNICEF and department of Health Punjab. The session was chaired by Dean Children Hospital Dr. Faisal Tahir, while WHO Operations Officer Punjab Dr. Babar Alam, Unicef Representative Dr. Uzma, Dr. SadiaAzam, WHO Nutrition Officer Punjab and Professor Dr. Shakila Zaman, was also present.

Dr. Babar Alam, WHO Operations Officer Punjab, told that seven SC in Punjab and two SC in Lahore are already being functional. The third and newly established, Stabilization center will start working from 1st April. To get best out of it, WHO also arranged 4 days training workshop, where seven Facilitators gave training to 24 doctors, nurses and other staff member on Community Mobilization, supplementary feeding, outpatients therapeutic program and functioning of SC’s essential components of care.

While speaking in concluded session of 4 days training workshop Professor Dr. Shakila Zaman said that Nutrition is extremely important but the situation is alarming in Pakistan. She expressed that according to National Nutrition Survey of 2011, among Pakistani children under the age of five, 43.6% are stunted, 15.1% are wasted and 31.5% are underweight. Children are suffering from severe malnutrition as 32.7%, 30.3% and 40 % are suffering from Iron, Vitamin A and Zinc deficiency respectively and 62.5% children are anemic, that shows alarming situation of malnutrition in the country.

She believed that newly created SC will help Children Hospital to handle severe malnutrition cases of mother and child in a better way. She said this is just the beginning, we have long way to go with WHO to overcome nutrition based Health issues.

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