Under five clinic includes all EXCEPT
Correct Answer: Supplementation of food
Description: (Supplementation of food): (Recent advances in community medicine, Suryakanta ) (1st/ edition p-549-50)UNDER FIVE CLINICUnder-fives' clinic - Center where preventive, promotive, curative, referral & educational services are provided in a package to under five children under 1 roof.AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:(1) Care in illness - * Diagnosis and treatment of - Acute illness, Chronic illness including physical, mental, congenital and acquired abnormalities, Disorders of growth and development* X-ray and laboratory services* Referral services(2) Preventive care* Immunization: against 6 VPD * Nutritional surveillance: To identify subclinical nutrition (e.g, PEM, anaemia, rickets, nutritional blindness). Food supplements or on-site feeding. IFA, Vitamin A]* Health check -ups: Physical examination and appropriate laboratory tests. These checkups are provided every 3 to 6 months.* Oral rehydration(3) Growth monitoring & Health check up-* Weight the child periodically at monthly intervals during the first year, every 2 months during the second year, and every 3 months thereafter up to the age of 5 to 6 years.* Growth curve - Plotting child's weight on growth chart against his/her age, to detect early onset of growth failure(4) Family Planning : (5) Health education: - How to keep the child clean, how and what to feed and when to bring the child for immunization"5 Cleans" in conduct of delivery - Important in prevention of neonatal tetanus* Clean hands* Clean surface for delivery* Clean cut* Clean tie* Clean cord-no application
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