Nutritional intervention among rural pre-school children-an evaluatory study

Nutritional intervention in the package form of medical care, supplementary feeding and education was offered to 82 severely malnourished children in two villages of rural health training centre, Naila, for 8 months. Normal weight was restored in 6.09 per cent of children respective to their age; 18.3 per cent improved to grade-l and 40.2 per cent to grade-11, 25.3 per cent remained refractory. The maximum weight gain was 2.5 Kg and 3.02 kg in grade-III and grade-IV malnourished children, respectively. On an average, it took 140.5 days for grade-Ill and 180 days for grade-IV severely malnourished children to return to road-to-health with respect to their weight for age.