Lao Cai: Launching Nutrition and Development Week in Tu Le commune

On October 22, the Lao Cai Provincial Center for Disease Control coordinated with the People's Committee of Tu Le Commune to organize the launching ceremony in response to the Nutrition and Development Week 2025. Attending the launching ceremony were leaders of the Center for Disease Control, the Commune People's Committee, the Regional Health Center, the Commune Police, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and socio-political organizations of Tu Le Commune.

Scene of the launching ceremony

Responding to the "Nutrition and Development" Week taking place from October 16 to 23, 2025, in recent years, socio -political organizations in Tu Le commune have always accompanied and supported the Health Station to regularly organize direct communication such as: group discussions at health check-ups, pregnancy check-ups, vaccinations, integrating into nutrition improvement activities to guide meal demonstrations for children, mothers/caregivers of children under 2 years old. The Commune Health Station coordinates with schools to organize communication campaigns, health check-ups and monitor the health status of 100% of students at all levels in the area. Mobilize nutrition collaborators, village health workers, and village chiefs to conduct communication at each household. Provide advice on proper nutrition care for pregnant mothers and young children; early detection and management of cases of malnutrition, overweight and obesity. Organize diverse media on loudspeakers, billboards, posters, leaflets, mobile radio, and community presentations. Organize food demonstrations suitable to the lives and economic conditions of people in the villages.

BSCKII Lai Manh Hung - Deputy Director of Lao Cai Provincial Center for Disease Control spoke at the launching ceremony in Tu Le commune.

According to statistics from Tu Le Commune Health Station, in the first 9 months of 2025, 100% of pregnant women and mothers with children under 2 years old in the commune received nutritional counseling in the first 1,000 days of life; the rate of children under 2 years old being weighed and measured monthly, and children under 5 years old being weighed and measured, and their nutritional status assessed once a year in June reached 98%; high-dose vitamin A supplementation for children from 6 months to 59 months old and malnourished children under 5 years old reached 100%.

Political and social units and organizations in the area marched in response to the week.

With the message: Choosing, processing and consuming healthy, safe and nutritious food, Nutrition and Development Week 2025 calls for action from the whole society. Each individual and each family should start with small changes in their daily meals to contribute to protecting health, building a healthy, happy and sustainable community.

After the launching ceremony, units and socio-political organizations participated in the parade responding to the Week on the main roads of Tu Le commune.

Bich Thuy

Source: https://syt.laocai.gov.vn/tin-tuc-su-kien/lao-cai-phat-dong-tuan-le-dinh-duong-va-phat-trien-tai-xa-tu-le-1547795