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ANAEMIA INCIDENCE HIGH IN NORTH ANDHRA
They have been conducting blood donation camps regularly and found these startling facts about the low presence of haemoglobin in women. Studies revealed that anaemia affects over 800 million women across the world and 52 per cent among the Indian women in the reproductive age.
Visakhapatnam: A large number of non-pregnant women in the age group of 15 to 49 are anaemic in north coastal districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam, according to promoters of well-known blood banks in the city.
They have been conducting blood donation camps regularly and found these startling facts about the low presence of haemoglobin in women. Studies revealed that anaemia affects over 800 million women across the world and 52 per cent among the Indian women in the reproductive age.
Recently we visited a residential girls’ school in a rural area in Vizianagaram district and checked their blood samples. It was found over 95 per cent of these girls had haemoglobin less than 10 per cent,” said president of Rotary Club Visakha Port City and chairman of Rotary Blood Bank B K Ray.
He said nutritious food was supplied to them for three months and later on verification a marginal increase in haemoglobin was found. He said the situation is same among the upper class women. They know the importance of haemoglobin and yet make no efforts to improve, Ray said.
Similarly, chief executive officer of Symbiosys Technologies O Naresh Kumar found that 95 per cent of his female staff was anaemic. The girls come from middle and upper middleclass. Recently he started supplying iron rich food free to these women at the work place.
It is the same with the CMR Group. On advice of doctors, Mavuri Ramana too had a check on female employees, hundreds of them employed in his apparel and jewelry showrooms were found with abysmal low percentage of haemoglobin. On the lines of Symbiosys, Ramana also started providing free food rich in iron contents to the female staff.
Daggubati Nivedita, Director and blood bank in charge of Pinnacle Hospital, the biggest in the private sector, said all that the women need to do is a 30-minute brisk walk and consume leafy vegetables and dry fruits.
Urban women need not be told on anaemia. They are most interested in diet control than nutrition,’’ she said.
Nivedita, on behalf of Pinnacle Hospital, organised a blood donation camp at CMR Central for two days in association with Symbiosys Technologies and CMR Group recently and found only 10 per cent of the 125 women who attended the camp, were fit to donate blood.
May be the women need to take a few lessons from tribal women who have better haemoglobin levels than their urban counterparts, Nivedita said.
She said on an average the city needs 2,000 units of blood and the supply always hovers around only 60 per cent because it comes mostly from men.
By:KMP Patnaik
