Ministry of health and family welfare has launched Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) Programme for school going adolescent girls and boys and for out of school adolescent girls. The Programme envisages administration of supervised weekly IFA Supplementation and biannual deworming tablets to approximately 13 crore rural and urban adolescents through the platform of Govt/Govt. aided and municipal school and Anganwadi Kendra and combat the intergenerational cycle of anaemia.
WIFS was in the news recently, when in Haryana more than 100 children has taken ill after consumption of Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplement
source http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/AH/WIFS.htm
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