Official program that delivers milk and food to AUH beneficiaries and allowance for pregnancy
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The executive director of ANSES, Fernanda Raverta, and the Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, announced this Monday the Fortified Milk and Healthy Food Delivery Program for future mothers and children up to 3 years of age who receive the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and the Pregnancy Allowance, were officially reported.
Resolution 409/2022, published this Monday in the Official Gazette, establishes that this provision will be a monthly amount of 800 pesos, in charge of ANSES, which will be updated quarterly by the Mobility Law and will be deposited on the same date and bank account. of the benefit. Obtaining the benefit is automatic and it is not necessary to carry out any additional procedure.
Likewise, the resolution regulates the coverage of food formulas for children who do not have access to breastfeeding and medicated milk for those who in their first three years have a condition that justifies their requirement, they highlighted.
Meanwhile, during the announcement made this Monday in Barrio 31 de Retiro, the officials participated in an informative workshop for mothers on the scope of Law 27,611 on Comprehensive Health Care and Attention during Pregnancy and Early Childhood (Law 1000 days), and topics related to breastfeeding, violence prevention and rights.
Fernanda Raverta expressed that “at ANSES we are proud of this measure and of all the public policies that make up the 1000 Days Plan, a decision of the President of the Nation. In total there are 774 thousand people between girls, boys and mothers who are going to receive this In Argentina, the Universal Child Allowance, the Pregnancy Allowance and the Food Card are rights that allow you to have a plate of food on the table, they have to do with the fact that the State intends to be close to those who need it most. they need”.
“It is important to note that the food support will be deposited directly into the mothers’ accounts without the need to do any type of paperwork,” he added.
For her part, Carla Vizzotti stressed that this “is a huge step by the State, it is expanding rights and promoting access. We incorporate work in workshops with pregnant women, as well as mothers of young children, because if the right does not it is known, it is not exercised, so it is also to make those rights known to favor their access”.
The 1000 Days Law guarantees the public and free provision of essential supplies for women and pregnant people during pregnancy and for children up to 3 years of age who do not have social security coverage or prepaid medicine, including essential medicines, vaccines, milk and food.
Currently, the Ministry of Health has in its budget the Interventions Program in Perinatal, Childhood and Adolescence Health, which in the “Nutrition Actions” activity has a credit of 5,000 million pesos. Of this total, 4,500 million are destined to the purchase of powdered milk and healthy foods; the remaining 500 million, to the acquisition and distribution to all jurisdictions of food formulas and medicated milk.
The proposal seeks to simplify and nominalize the access of this public policy by integrating the purchase of fortified milk and healthy foods to the allocations, with the purpose of eliminating the erroneous distribution subject to logistics between levels of government, they highlighted in a statement.
