The Pauri district magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt instructed the health department officials to carry out surprise inspections of ultrasound centres operating in the district.
The department officials should seek the assistance of the sub divisional magistrate concerned for conducting these inspections.
Reviewing execution of various works under the National Health Mission here, Bhatt checked aspects like the PCPNDT Act, family planning, national child security programme, and emergency ambulance service instructing department officials to achieve the desired result under the national health mission.
The DM instructed that proper medical check ups of children from Anganwadi
to class XII should be conducted free of cost and that a list of malnourished children be made.
In case of serious health problem, he directed the Chief Medical Officer to ensure the medical examine of the child in the higher medical centre.
Officials informed in the meeting that the medical check ups of students of 1,534 schools in the district had been completed.
In addition to this, 15,000 medical examinations had been conducted in the Anganwadi centres of the district with 509 student also being provided spectacles.
Six of the State’s districts are working under the child heath programme which entails medical examination of children aged between
10 to 19 years and their referral to higher centre for necessary treatment.