PNC to feed poor pregnant women in Negros, Panay

THE Philippine Nutrition Council (PNC) allocated P54 million to feed 8,911 poor pregnant women in Negros Occidental and Panay Island.

In Negros Occidental, pregnant women in the cities of Cadiz, La Carlota, San Carlos and the towns of Hinoba-an and Binalbagan, will undergo a three-month feeding through the Dietary Supplementation Program for Pregnant Women under Early Childhood Care and Development in the First 1,000 Days (ECCD F1K).

According to the PNC, Western Visayas is second to Mimaropa for having the highest prevalence of nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women.

The program aims to reduce the number of nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women and increase the number of infants with normal-birth-weight which is greater than or equal to 2.5 kilograms.

The level of calorie and protein supplementation is 300 kilocalories (kcal) per day and 15 to 20 grams of protein for preventive approach or for non-nutritionally at-risk pregnant women and 400kcal per day and 15 to 20 grams protein for curative approach or for those nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women to be given within the span of approximately three months.

Beneficiaries will be given daily hot meals on weekdays and dry rations or everyday ration of milk and dry goods starting from the 24th week of pregnancy or first trimester.

A budget of P30 per pregnant woman per day for 76 days hot meal feeding shall be allocated for rice, vegetable, viand, and fruit; P75 is allotted for eating utensils to be given one time.

An allocation of P1,000 is for the purchase of cooking utensils, gas, and other cooking necessities.

Communication allowance is at P2,000 per barangay for the duration of the feeding program will be made available to continually encourage beneficiaries avail of the feeding program.

Hinobaan town and La Carlota City have already started the program this month while Cadiz will implement it sometime in the third quarter of this year while the municipality of Binalbagan will be in August.

A monitoring scheme had been formulated to be observed by personnel involved which are mostly barangay health workers and barangay nutrition scholars. (PR)

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