Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital in Delhi
The Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), a government-approved facility to address malnutrition among children. Set up under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), severely acute malnourished (SAM) children along with their mothers are admitted for treatment and rehabilitation.
A nutritionist, cook and a worker are present round-the-clock at the centre. Over a couple of weeks, intervention and management of severely malnourished children are done with the use of indigenously prepared therapeutic diets that bring down the case fatality rate.
New mothers are educated on how to prevent deficiencies in their children. A follow-up is done to check and monitor progress of both the children and the mothers once they are discharged.