Mobile IEC vans to spread health awareness flagged off
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 30
The District Health Department today flagged off three Information Education Communication (IEC) mobile vans under the National Health Mission here today to create awareness about health issues in all localities of the city.
While flagging off the vehicles, the Civil Surgeon, Dr Pardeep Chawla, said, “The six IEC vans had started visiting 845 villages in seven rural area blocks on November 5. Till now, these vans have covered 750 villages.”
He said the National Health Mission was observing the month from November 5 to December 5 as Health Awareness Campaign under which the IEC vans were visiting each and every locality in the district.
Dr Chawla said a team of doctors accompanied each IEC van and organised medical camps. The patients attending these camps were being given medicines free of cost, he said.
The IEC vans were equipped with LED screens on which audio-visual clips to create awareness among people about various health issues were played during the period of its stay at a medical camp.
District Family Welfare Officer Dr Sukhpal Singh said they also distributed literature about various health issues among residents through these IEC vans. He said localities in the entire city with a special focus on slums would be covered before December 5.
He said these vans were highlighting a total of 20 national health programmes, including the National Vector Born Disease Control Programme, the Revised National TB Control Programme, the National Iodine Deficiency Programme, the Cancer Control Programme, the Bal Suraksha Programme, the Tobacco Control Programme and many others.
