Vision:
All people living in Bhutan attain optimal health and development through adequate nutrition
Goal:
To ensure physical and mental development through adequate nutrition, prevent disability or premature death from diet-related chronic diseases, and ensure the progression of Bhutanese population from healthy childhood to productive adulthood, and further into old age
Objectives:
- To reduce the level of stunting in children under 5 from 33.5 to < 30% (SKRA -KPI)
- To reduce underweight from 12.7% to 5%
- To increase Exclusive Breast Feeding from 48.7 to 50%
- To reduce anemia in children from 81% to < than 60%
- To strengthen community based nutrition initiatives
Program mandates and core functions:
- To prevent macronutrient deficiency:
- Dietary diversification
- Child feeding and care practices
- Growth Monitoring
- Nutrition Rehabilitation
- To prevent micronutrient deficiency:
- Iron deficiency Anemia control program
- Iodine deficiency disorder control program
- Vitamin A deficiency control program
- Other vitamin supplementation
Contact points
- LaigdenDzed, Sr. PO, Nutrition Program ldzed@health.gov.bt
- KinleyWangmo, PO, Nutrition Program kinleywangmo@health.gov.bt