"We have recently conducted work of screening of the children, aged between 0 to 8 years, in Anganwadis across the state. We found that around two to five children in each Anganwadis were highly malnourished. Let us adopt these malnourished children," Patel said at an event here.
"People have to take responsibility of such kids in your surrounding. Though the state government has been taking all the responsibilities of all such kids, you just have to bring them with their mothers to nearest government hospital where they are treated for around 21 days," Patel added.
She was speaking after felicitating local bodies for their contribution in cleanliness mission to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday.
The Chief Minister also felicitated Sarpanch of 11 villages, three municipalities and two municipal corporations who have achieved 100 per cent success in building personal toilets.
According to her, around 3,800 villages of Gujarat have achieved 100 per cent target of making toilets where open defecation has ended.
She made an appeal to make attempts to make toilets in house of each and every village of Gujarat by 2017.