Workshop on Health and Human Rights with special reference to maternal anaemia
The National Human Rights Commission will organise a two-day Workshop on Health and Human Rights in India with special reference to Maternal Anemia. It will be held from 26 – 27 April 2000. It is being co-sponsored by the Department of Women and Child Development of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the UNICEF. The broad purpose of the workshop will be to evolve legal and programmatic instrument and innovations that would help zero in on a more focussed approach to the programme relevant to the widespread health problem of maternal anaemia.
The Commission has been concerned about the wide prevalence of iodine deficiency related health problems, which results in large number of children in our country being borne with mental disabilities. Iron deficiency not only causes anemia in expectant mothers, but also frequently leads to loss of life during delivery or lead to birth of children often contempt to suffer mental disabilities.
The workshop will deliberate upon the legal and politico administrative, techno-scientific and the programmatic aspects of the problem. The recommendations of the deliberations will be sent to the concerned government and other agencies including international agencies.
The Commission has been concerned about the wide prevalence of iodine deficiency related health problems, which results in large number of children in our country being borne with mental disabilities. Iron deficiency not only causes anemia in expectant mothers, but also frequently leads to loss of life during delivery or lead to birth of children often contempt to suffer mental disabilities.
The workshop will deliberate upon the legal and politico administrative, techno-scientific and the programmatic aspects of the problem. The recommendations of the deliberations will be sent to the concerned government and other agencies including international agencies.