The centre for population education, research and extension (CPERE), department of Community Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, is going to organize two-day National PEER, a workshop on maternal anaemia control through convergence.
According to Prof RK Srivastava, head, department of community medicine, BHU, and organising secretary of the programme, the two-day event would focus on ways to control maternal anaemia in the Varanasi district.
Joint organising secretary of the programme and coordinator, CPERE, Prof SC Mohapatra said the programme would also witness discussions on grass root networking for healthcare delivery in the region and issues like anaemia in adolescent girls would be also raised by experts.
Additional director, health, Varanasi, Dr MN Yadav would be the chief guest while director, Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), BHU, Prof Gajendra Singh would preside over the inaugural function.