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Health Department holds de-worming drive in district

AMRITSAR: The District Health Department conducted a de-worming drive for children under the age of 19 years at various Anganwari Centres and schools here today.

Health Department holds de-worming drive in district

The staff of the Health Department distribute de-worming medicine among schoolchildren in Amritsar. A Tribune photo



Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 15

The District Health Department conducted a de-worming drive for children under the age of 19 years at various Anganwari Centres and schools here today.

Civil Surgeon, Dr Pardeep Chawla, said the drive was conducted at 1,851 Anganwari Centres, 1,326 government and aided schools, besides at 830 private schools in the Amritsar district.

He said children, who were not given medicine today due to any reason, would be covered during a drive again on February 20. All schools were provided with Albandazole tablets and instructions were given to head teachers to distribute them, he added.

He said teachers made pupils consume pills in front of them. It was a successful effort by the authorities to de-worm every child, he added.

“These tablets are randomly provided by the government but, such mandatory action is never heard before,” said Ravi Marwaha, a teacher in charge at the government school in Ajnala.

“We were instructed to send a picture of pills being distributed by the staff of the Health Department. So, we personally made students swallow tablet in front of us,” he said.

“It is a great effort by the authorities as students, mostly from impoverished families, cannot afford these pills. They are not aware of its necessity,” said Sandip Singh, another government school teacher.

Meanwhile, some private schools did not allow children to have the medicine fearing that it might cause some health problem. “There have been reports in newspapers on previous occasion that a few children had fallen sick,” said a private school principal on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, the health authorities stated that tablets were safe and there had been no report of any child falling sick.

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