De-worming campaign to be conducted at Government approved centres, tribal ashrams schools and anganwadi centres.
During the campaign medicines will be given to 1.21lakh primary, secondary and higher secondary students. Also 63,832 children at various anganwadi centers will receive Albendazole medicine as a part of the campaign.
Students of private schools of three districts Bhopal, Raisen and Sagar are also included in the above programme.
During the campaign children will be administered Albendazole tablets and children of the age one to two will be given half powdered tablet. Children above two years of age will be given a 400 mg chewable tablet.
In all the centers, the tablets will be administered in presence of a responsible official. One who missed this tablet on the first run can get it on February 15. In schools and anganwadi centers on National De-worming Day, Dulbendazole suspension and tablets, packets of ORS, Domperidone, Dicyclomine and paracetamol, meant to be used in case of emergency, will be available.
Notably, the infection spreads either by lack of hygiene or by getting in contact with dirt. On the one side, this affects the physical and mental growth, while on the other, nutrition and hemoglobin level also gets affected.
In this campaign, Bhopal, Raisen, Hoshangabad, Harda, Betul, Sehore, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Indore, Jhabua, Badwani, Burhanpur, Dhar, Alirajpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Ujjain, Dewas, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Ratlam, Shajapur, Aagar-Malwa, Sidhi, Singrauli, Anuppur, Shahdol, Sagar, Jabalpur, Balaghat, Seoni, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Gwalior, Guna, Ashok Nagar, Bhind, Morena and Shivpur will be included.