Officials to back malnourished kids in Hazaribag

HAZARIBAG: Hazaribag deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan along with other government officials and some private doctors have decided to support 259 children in the district suffering from malnutrition. The decision was taken at a meeting here on Sunday. The DC pointed out that if children get good food and proper care following the adoption every year, cases of death due to malnutrition would come down considerably.The DC himself will support 20 such children.The DC said if people support malnourished children it would go a long way in bringing up children properly who, in turn, would contribute to society when they grow up.
The DC appealed to doctors to prescribe generic medicine which will be cheaper than the medicines usually prescribed by them. "I have also instructed the civil surgeon to issue licenses to unemployed youths for opening generic medicine shops in remote areas of the district so that people can get medicines at their doorstep instead of traveling to towns," Ranjan said.