The State Government will observe the month of September as ‘Child Protection Month’ in Chhattisgarh.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agrawal, in the departmental review meeting held here, asked the officers to make preparations for the ‘Child Protection Month’.The Minister said that in the ‘Child Protection Month’ beginning from September 2, this year to save children from different diseases and vaccination would be administered to them on each Tuesday and Friday at all Government district hospitals, community and primary health centres and sub health centres. Alongwith children, the programme would be conducted for the health protection of their mothers also, he added.
The Minister said that provision has been made in the Sanjeevni Kosh scheme to provide financial assistance to the patients suffering from 30 serious diseases.To provide benefit of the scheme to such patients, special camps would be organised at about 200 localities of the State after September 15.Agrawal stressed on the need for making online the facilities to the beneficiaries of Mukhyamantri Baal Hriday Suraksha Yojana, Mukhyamantri Baal Shravan Yojana and Sanjeevni Kosh Yojana. He said that under Mukhyamantri Baal Hriday Suraksha Yojana, free treatment is being provided to the child heart patient up to 15 years of age, who is a domicile of Chhattsigarh, at six registered hospitals of the State. Under the scheme, free treatment and operation of 4,500 children have been done so far.
The Minister directed the officers to make preparation for imparting training on speech therapy to doctors under the Mukhyamantri Baal Shravan Yojana.