PUNE: Medical and community health officers of the Pune Zilla parishad (ZP), who screened 3. 2 lakh children up to six years of age residing in rural areas of Pune in the last month, have identified 2,099 malnourished and 5,201 children who probably require medical intervention.
These identified children will be checked by specialists and guided by dieticians. The Pune ZP will conduct free blood tests and body scans to recommend medical, surgical, and nutritional intervention. Among the detected malnourished children, 1,695 were moderately acute whereas 404 were severely acute.
