Health Department, ICDS, and the Education Department will be holding celebrations for the National Agricultural Liberation Day on Thursday. On the day, children from one to 19 years and scholars will work to remove insects and later, be fed Fenbendazole pills. The campaign is organised by Ghaziabad district officer Ajay Shankar Pandey from Indagarhi Status Primary School. ACMO Dr Sanjay Aggarwal said, “All the parents should feed their children well. This pill is not fed on an empty stomach. All departments engaged in the campaign have been trained to shoot.”
He said that due to worms in the stomach, which affects the physical and mental development of the child, the health department runs a campaign twice every year to feed the children to take the insecticide pills. “The tablet has to be swallowed with water after chewing it properly. One to two-year-olds face have difficulty while chewing the pill, so they only have to grind half the tablet. Children, two to 19-year-olds, will have to chew a pill,” said he.
Dr Sanjay informed that 1.25 lakh tablets have been made available by the health department. He said, “These tablets are for urban and rural Anganwadi centres. Apart from this, three lakh tablets have been made available to the DIOS (district school inspector) too.”
The campaign will start today and will go on in Anganwadi centres till September 4. CMO Dr NK Gupta has appealed to all the parents to feed their children with insecticide. It is very necessary for the physical and mental development of the child.