Tuesday 01/July/2025 – 03:49 PM
The Ministry of Health and Population has announced a package of new health interventions within the national plan for food and nutrition systems, aimed at reducing malnutrition and anemia between children, adolescents and women, and providing healthy foods supported by microcity.
Dr. Amr Qandil, Deputy Minister of Health and Population, said that one of the most currently ongoing interventions is:
Promote iodine salt on a national scale.
Supporting municipal bread with micro nutrients, and it has gradually applied in a number of governorates in the past two months.
Hospital therapeutic nutrition programs.
Preventive and complementary feeding campaigns.
The “100 million health” campaign continues to detect malnutrition diseases.
He also pointed out that the ministry began, in cooperation with the National Institute of Nutrition and Development Partners, to prepare a national road map to reduce anemia, aiming to reduce the incidence of infection in children under the age of five, schoolchildren, adolescents, and women of childbearing age, by 2030.
Qandil stressed that the Ministry is working to develop periodic measurement indicators to assess the effectiveness of interventions, within an integrated institutional framework aimed at achieving food and health security for the Egyptian citizen.
