{"id":15151,"date":"2007-02-16T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/ministry-of-health-to-fortify-foods\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:43:56","slug":"ministry-of-health-to-fortify-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/02\/16\/ministry-of-health-to-fortify-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health to fortify foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In response to the United Nations report that 27% of the Dominican population is malnourished, the Ministry of Health has announced RD$450 million in funding for a program to fortify foods for infants and pregnant women. The goal is to reduce anemia and Vitamin A deficiencies in these two groups. Maltide Vasquez, Nutrition sub-Minister, says that the goal is to 100% fortify wheat with iron, folic acid, vitamin B, and fortify 80% of sugar with Vitamin A. The program looks to lower the anemia rate in children under five years old to 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the United Nations report that 27% of the Dominican population is malnourished, the Ministry of Health has announced RD$450 million in funding for a program to fortify foods for infants and pregnant women. The goal is to reduce anemia and Vitamin A deficiencies in these two groups. Maltide Vasquez, Nutrition sub-Minister, says &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/02\/16\/ministry-of-health-to-fortify-foods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[226,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}