India, Sept. 14 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
On 17th September 2025, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will launch the 'Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan' along with the 8th Poshan Maah, marking a historic step towards strengthening healthcare and nutrition services for women, adolescent girls, and children across India.
The initiative is being jointly led by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MoWCD), reflecting their shared commitment to women's and children's health and nutrition. MoHFW will anchor the delivery of preventive, promotive, and curative health services through health camps and facilities nationwide, while MoWCD will integrate Poshan Maah activities with the campaign, mobilise women and adolescent girls through Anganwadi centres, and lead large-scale nutrition counselling and recipe demonstrations. Together, the two ministries will also drive awareness campaigns on anaemia prevention, balanced diets, and menstrual hygiene, ensuring that the health and nutrition needs of women and adolescent girls are addressed in a holistic and convergent manner.
The Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan aims to advance the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of Health, Poshan (Nutrition), Fitness, and a Viksit Bharat by 2047. This nationwide intensified campaign seeks to provide women-centric preventive, promotive, and curative health services at the community level. It will strengthen screening, early detection, and treatment linkages for non-communicable diseases, anaemia, tuberculosis, and sickle cell disease, while also promoting maternal, child, and adolescent health through antenatal care, immunisation, nutrition, menstrual hygiene, lifestyle and mental health awareness activities. At the same time, the campaign will mobilise communities towards healthy lifestyle practices with a special emphasis on obesity prevention, improved nutrition, and voluntary blood donation.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Hon'ble Health & Family Welfare Minister Shri J.P. Nadda underlined that the purpose of the initiative is to strengthen healthcare services for women and children across India, ensuring better access, quality care, and awareness. He appealed to all private hospitals and healthcare stakeholders to come forward and be an integral part of this Jan Bhagidaari Abhiyaan.
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