Tamil Nadu Health Ministry launched the ‘First 1000 – Best Healthy Days’ programme.
It aims at monitoring the nutrition of pregnant women and newborns for the first 1,000 days.
It was inaugurated at the Primary Health Centre in Thimiri block near Arcot.
This scheme is being implemented in all the 23 Community Health Centers and 116 Primary Health Centres of 14 districts based on the poor maternal and child health indicators in the State.
In two years, 74,400 infants will be covered under the initiative.