IFFCO’s Jyoti ladies Club conducted its 3rd Sustha Balika programme at the Indira Gandhi Girls’ High School near Balia under Kujanga Block. Earlier, the project was launched in the Nabajyoti Girls High School, Biswali, and Kujanga Girls High School, Chatua with good response from the girls.
Club president Saroj Gandhi inaugurated the novel project on April 24 last in presence of headmistress of the school Susmita Nayak and Panchayat Mahila Mahavidyalay principal Chaitanya Khatua.
Gandhi informed that the project has been sponsored by IFFCO, Paradip unit in association with Jyoti ladies Club to make periodical health checkups of school going girls in regular interval with a team of doctors and medicos. It conducted some essential medical examination of school going girls to find out their deficiencies. It also provided free medicines as well as vitamins and tonics, etc, she asserted.
Gandhi further told that the programme will address the problems of anemia, mostly prevalent among the young and adolescent school girls of the area. As many as 127 girl students were examined and given health cards. Their blood groupings as well as haemoglobin tests were conducted. Medicines and vitamins worth Rs1, 00,000 were distributed free of cost to the girls. The medical camp was conducted by Dr Puspa Mohanty, Dr Prativa Patanaik and her team.