The district administration of Dehradun is preparing for successful organisation of the ‘National Deworming Day’ on February 10. On Monday, District Magistrate Ravi Nath Raman took a review meeting of the officials concerned for the programme.
The DM asked the officials to ensure that anti-helminthic tablet Albendazole intended to be distributed in the schools reaches the offices of the Block Education Officers (BEO) before February 5.
Similarly, the tablets which would be distributed through Anganwadi workers should reach the office of Integrated Child Welfare Officer of respective block and tablets for schools located in city areas should reach the office of Nagar Shiksha Adhikari by the above mentioned date, he further said.These tablets should reach their respective destination like Anganwadi centres and schools between February 06 to 08.
Raman cautioned that the expiry date on the tablets should be compulsorily checked before distribution and all the ANMs and Asha workers should participate in the exercise of administering the tablet. He said that all the teachers and anganwadi workers should get a compulsory training on February 04 at block level.
Adding a word of caution the DM said that since the issue is related with children utmost care must be taken in execution of the programme and warned that any laxity would not be tolerated.
He appealed all to ensure that children between the age group 1 to 19 are administered the deworming tablets on the day. Children between the ages I – 2 would be given half tablet while children between age 2 to 19 would be administered one tablet.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun, Dr S P Agarwal said that 202200 children would be administered the tablet in 1907 Anganwadi centres and 1769 schools across the district. He informed that the children who are left out on the day would be given tablets on February 15 on mop up day.
The meeting was attended by the Chief Development Officer (CDO) of Dehradun, Alok Kumar Pandey, the district programe officer of ICDS, S K Singh, District Education Officer (Secondary), C N Kala, District Immunization Officer, Dr U S Chauhan, City Urban health officer, Rakesh Bisht and district officer of Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram Anup Chauhan and others.