The national de-worming Day will be observed on Wednesday by administering medicine to more than 1.5 crore children in 41 districts of the State. The programme will be inaugurated by Health Minister Narottam Mishra at the Sarojini Naidu girls school in Shivaji Nagar.
This is organised under the joint auspices of National Health Mission, Integrated Child Development and Tribal development departments. It will start with administering medicine to children at Sarojini Naidu Girls School at Shivaji Nagar.
The main objective of this campaign is to prevent infection and the Iron deficiency in the body due to it. During this campaign, target has been fixed for administering medicine to 1,51,01,901 children on the same day.
On this day children between the age of one and 19 will be given the medicine and this will be carried out in all the 41 districts. During the campaign medicine will be administered to a total of 1,21,211 primary, secondary and higher secondary students. Other than this 63, 832 anganwadi centers will also be covered and administered Albedazole tablets.
In three districts namely Bhopal, Raisen and Sagar students of privet centers are also included. Children of the age one to two will be given half powdered Albedazole tablets whereas children between two and 19 will be given full chewable tablets of 400 mg. At all the centers the medicine will be administered in presence of a responsible official.
The left out children will be getting the dose on February 15. In schools and anganwadi centers on National De-worming Day, Albendazole suspension and tablets, packets of ORS, Domperidone, Dicyclomine and paracetamol, meant to be used in case of emergency, will be available.