NFHS-6 not to measure anaemia as experts point out method is faulty, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com

According to experts who were part of several meetings of the health ministry and Niti Aayog in which the decision to drop anaemia from NFHS was taken, the problem with the NFHS estimation was that it used capillary samples or blood drawn from a finger prick and then measured using an instrument whose results could vary by almost a gram per decilitre of blood., According to experts who were part of several meetings of the health ministry and Niti Aayog in which the decision to drop anaemia from NFHS was taken, the problem with the NFHS estimation was that it used capillary samples or blood drawn from a finger prick and then measured using an instrument whose results could vary by almost a gram per decilitre of blood., , Read More