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The Health and Education departments will jointly motorboat a broad School Health Programme successful the State, said Health Minister Veena George present connected Tuesday.
The purpose is to marque children the ambassadors of health, archetypal spreading consciousness from children to families and past from families to the larger community.
The programme seeks to guarantee the carnal and intelligence well-being of each child, portion promoting the holistic improvement of the body, mind, and intellect. Children volition beryllium issued idiosyncratic wellness cards arsenic portion of the programme to systematically show and measure their wellness status, Ms. George, said.
She was speaking aft inaugurating the State-level observance of National Deworming Day present connected Tuesday. January 6 is observed arsenic National Deworming Day. It is important to forestall worm infestation successful children to guarantee their healthy growth, she added.
The WHO estimates that astir 64 % children aged betwixt 1 and 14 years successful India are astatine hazard of worm infestation. Thus, targeted objective interventions are necessary.
Deworming tablets are being administered to children aged 1 to 19 years done schools and anganwadi centres. Children who were incapable to instrumentality the tablets connected the designated time volition beryllium fixed the aforesaid connected January 12. The deworming tablets are to beryllium administered to children strictly successful accordance with the instructions of wellness workers.
Those contiguous astatine the inaugural relation included Director of Health Services K.J. Reena, District Education Officer Shibu Premlal, among others.
