India, Nov. 26 -- The Delhi government will launch a new non-invasive anaemia screening project aimed at determining the prevalence and trends of anaemia across age groups in the national capital, officials from the health department said. The pilot will also evaluate "the cost-effectiveness, rapidity and overall utility of this new non-invasive technology" as part of the screening initiative.

According to the National Family Health Survey 5 for 2019 to 2021, 50.6 percent of women and 66.1 percent of children aged six to fifty-nine months in the Delhi NCR region have anaemia. Calling the burden "high despite multiple initiatives", health minister Pankaj Singh said, "Hence, with this new initiative, we aim to take further steps to tackle ...