India, April 8 -- The Delhi government on Tuesday approved the implementation of a newborn screening programme aimed at ensuring early detection and management of congenital disorders across the Capital.

Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh told HT on Tuesday that the programme-Advanced Newborn Monitoring and Optimal Life Care (ANMOL)-will cover around 150,000 to 250,000 newborns annually, ensuring screenings across all government health facilities and outreach centres.

Singh said that the programme will enable timely identification and management of a wide range of metabolic, endocrine, functional, and visible congenital conditions such as cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, neural tube defects (such as spina bifida), limb reduction defects ...