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THE HIMALAYAN (Nepal)

KATHMANDU: The Health Ministry is focusing on first 1000 days – 280 days in mother's womb and the succeeding 730 days following the birth of a child – to improve the status of malnutrition.

The initiative comes in the wake of findings of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)-2011 that showed a nominal change in malnutrition status.

Dr Shyam Raj Upreti, director of the Child Health Division (CHD) under the ministry, said the government was focusing on the nutrition programme of a mother and a child from the embryonic stage...

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 THE HIMALAYAN (Nepal)

KATHMANDU: The Health Ministry is focusing on first 1000 days – 280 days in mother's womb and the succeeding 730 days following the birth of a child – to improve the status of malnutrition.

The initiative comes in the wake of findings of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)-2011 that showed a nominal change in malnutrition status.

Dr Shyam Raj Upreti, director of the Child Health Division (CHD) under the ministry, said the government was focusing on the nutrition programme of a mother and a child from the embryonic stage...