He Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Between) will temporarily expand the care it provides, through its social programs, in order to ensure access to priority health services, as well as to promote food security, of more than 500 thousand households in a situation of vulnerability due to the pandemic of the COVID-19.
Through the Together program will be delivered S / 200, every two months, to more than 440 thousand households with children under 24 months of 1594 districts in the country. The care includes those who live in districts with 15% poverty or more and who are not currently users of said program.
For each household that joins this intervention and whose owner does not have a savings account, the Midis will carry out the procedures with the Banco de la Nación to open a new account in their favor.
In the cases of a household with more than one mother with children under 24 months, each mother will be considered an independent household. In the cases of mothers with more than one child, payments will be conditional on compliance with co-responsibilities such as taking the minors to their health checks.
Since Cot More Up to two home visits per month will be made to the homes of a total of 76,747 children under one year of age in 690 districts living in poverty and extreme poverty, who are not currently part of the program, in order to verify their access to DAYS, growth control, pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines, as well as iron supplementation and hemoglobin dosage.
“The pandemic has had a severe and significant impact on families, but especially girls and boys, in situations of vulnerability, due to the fact that their access to many essential services for early childhood has been interrupted. Our objective is to promote their access to this prioritized package of services and thus guarantee their Early Childhood Development “, said the head of the sector, Patricia donayre.
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