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The Health department, successful collaboration with the General Education and Local Self-Governments departments, has launched Aksharam Aarogyam, a broad schoolhouse wellness and wellness programme.
Aimed astatine students from Classes I to XII successful each authorities and aided schools crossed the State, the nonsubjective of the task is to guarantee aboriginal involution and systematic wellness monitoring for the younger generation. In the archetypal phase, 61,264 superior schoolhouse students (Classes I to IV) successful the territory volition acquisition thorough wellness screenings. Trained wellness attraction professionals volition measure wide carnal health, imaginativeness and proceeding impairments, and learning disabilities. All findings, on with indispensable information specified arsenic humor radical and vaccination status, volition beryllium documented successful a dedicated Health Card prepared by the Health department.
Follow-up system
The programme includes a robust follow-up strategy wherever students requiring specialised attraction aft the superior screening volition beryllium referred to the nearest wellness centres for adept consultation. To guarantee creaseless implementation, specialised grooming sessions person already been conducted for wellness attraction workers crossed each wellness blocks successful the district. Beyond carnal screenings, the task extends its scope to precocious primary, precocious school, and higher secondary students done acquisition sessions. These classes volition absorption connected carnal and intelligence good being, close diets, value of regular workout and anti-drug awareness.
District aesculapian serviceman A.L. Sheeja inaugurated the programme astatine St. Joseph’s School portion Principal Sr. Rose Margaret presided implicit the function. District reproductive and kid wellness (RCH) serviceman Linda Joseph, territory programme manager of Arogya Keralam Dev Kiran and Education section elder superintendent Aji Kumar besides spoke connected the occasion.
