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Weekly supplements to fight adolescent anaemia
- Concerned over the high prevalence of adolescent anaemia, the Health Ministry will soon launch a Weekly Iron and Folic Supplementation programme.
- Preferably Monday, will be earmarked for distribution of iron and folic acid tablets.
- Funding for the scheme will be provided to the States under the National Rural Health Mission. They have been advised to project their fund requirements in the Programme Implementation Plans for 2012-13 so that the scheme can be rolled out in the coming financial year.
- The WIFS will serve as an entry point for counselling adolescents and addressing their health and nutrition needs through the Women and Child Development Ministry's Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (SABLA) and the Health Ministry's programme of Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health and Menstrual Hygiene.
- Joint capacity building activities involving service providers (medical officers, Sabla coordinators, anganwadi workers, staff nurses and school teachers)
- Anaemia occurs primarily due to iron deficiency and is caused by undernutrition and poor dietary intake of iron.
- It is a nationwide problem, among not only pregnant women, infants and young children but also adolescents.
- Anaemia in adolescent girls enhances the risk of pre-term delivery and their having babies with low birth weight.
- These babies are more likely to be ill and are not likely reach the age of one year.
- Anaemia in adolescent girls also increases their risk of maternal deaths.
- More than one-third of all maternal deaths occur among women in the age group 15-24.
For Ramanujan, it was a theorem a day
- Celebrating year-long celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of Ramanujan
- Ramanujan who flashed like a meteor through a span of 32 years making remarkable contributions to mathematics before he was struck down by tuberculosis had left behind a strange and rare legacy – well over 4,000 formulae written on pages of three notebooks besides scraps of paper.
- Assuming that the bulk of his work was produced during a period of 12 years, Ramanujan was discovering at least one new formula or theorem every day
- However, he did not do mathematics as mathematicians do, but rather discovered and created mathematics.
- In fact, Ramanujan had no formal education in higher mathematics, stated theorems without proofs and could not explain how results were obtained even though most of his stated theorems have been proven correct.
- Indians had made substantial contributions to mathematics over the seven centuries starting 500 AD, the country was lagging in the global ranking of knowledge societies.
- Going by the number of research papers published in high impact journals and the number of citations they received India's rank is below that of a few third world nations.
- an example of the applicability of Ramanujan's theorems in everyday life was his partition formula for numbers that is the basic principle now used at ATMs for apportioning currency by the available stock of denominations.
