Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Haryana to introduce Hb Colour Scale Kit

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 4
Haryana would adopt painless and convenient method of Hemoglobin (Hb) estimation called Hb Colour Scale Kit from this year.
          This was stated by Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Dr. Rakesh Gupta while presiding over a state level inter- convergence meeting organized by National Rural Health Mission on the Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana (IBSY) today. The meeting was attended by District School Health officers, District Education officers of all the districts and State Programme Officers of Health Department.
        Dr. Gupta said that under the IBSY, comprehensive health check-up would be conducted for all the children of government schools and Anganwadis to diagnose disease, deficiency and disability. The identified children would be provided the facility of corrective surgeries and treatment free of cost.He that the incidence of anemia was very high in the school going children and it was the responsibility of the Health and Education departments to curb anemia in hand to hand mode. He said that as a prophylactic measure,  all children up to the age of 18 years were being given Iron Folic Acid tablets for improving Hb level and Albendazole tablets for deworming.
       He said that external monitors from WHO would monitor the activities of IBSY to ensure proper implementation of the scheme in the entire state. He urged all the concerned officers  to help in effective implementation of this scheme.

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