NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar' (Healthy Women, Empowered Families) and eighth 'Rashtriya Poshan Maah' campaigns during his visit to Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Wednesday, officials said on Tuesday.
He will also lay the foundation stone and launch several other initiatives, including 'PM MITRA Park', one of the country's seventh textile hub, which is being set up in Dhar.
The Prime Minister will also address a gathering on the occasion.
In line with his commitment to health, nutrition, fitness, and a 'Swashth' (healthy) and 'Sashakt' (empowered) Bharat, Prime Minister Modi will launch the 'Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar' and 'eighth Rashtriya Poshan Maah' campaigns.
More than one lakh health camps will be organised, making this the largest ever health outreach for women and children in the country between September 17 and October 2.
Daily health camps will be held in all government health facilities nationwide.
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.
Specialist services, including gynaecology, paediatrics, eye, ENT, dental, dermatology, and psychiatry will be mobilised through medical colleges, district hospitals, Central government institutions, and private hospitals.
Under the campaign blood donation drives will also be organised across the country.