Time to focus on nutrition
Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said that the country has excelled in food production, and now it is time to focus on nutrition.
He made the remark while speaking as the chief guest at the launching programme of “Participatory Multi-sectoral District Annual Nutrition Plan 2019-20 for Sunamganj”.
The programme -- held at a conference hall in South Sunamganj upazila -- was organised by the District Nutrition Coordinator Committee and facilitated by Collective Impact for Nutrition (CI4N) project of CARE Bangladesh.
“District Annual Nutrition Plan” is one of the key activities of the Nutrition Coordinator Committee, as per Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC).
In the launching ceremony, CARE Bangladesh’s CI4N Initiative’s teamleader Naznin Rahman gave the inaugural presentation on nutrition situation and other indicators followed by a presentation on the process of the plan by the initiative’s technical manager Md Hasanuzzaman.
Md Shah Nawaz, director general of BNNC; Dr Khalilur Rahman, director of IPHA; Dr Ikhtiar Uddin Khandaker, director of health programmes of CARE Bangladesh, spoke at the launching ceremony while Dr Ashutosh Das, civil surgeon of Sunamganj, also spoke at the event.
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