Statewide annual school health checkup programme from Dec 7

Gandhinagar

Gujarat government will launch statewide school health checkup programme from 7th of December. The health checkup drive according to state health minister Shri Nitin Patel will continue till 5 February 2016 and cover as many as 1.56 crore students and other children.

The annual drive will involve 4,29,972 human force from govt side including 2,720 doctors.

Children who don’t go to school, children home, Madresa, orphanage children will be covered in this programme. Type-1 diabetes and epilepsy are added to coverage of this programme. Distribution of glasses, free of cost super-speciality treatment facility when needed are some of the highlights of this programme initiated during the leadership of previous chief minister Shri Narendra Modi.

Last year 1,54,66,126 children were checked up for health. Of them 15,98,975 were treated on the spot, 1,58,986 were given glasses, 4249 were treated for heart, 1170 for kidney, 781 for cancer. 9 cases involved kidney transplantation while 2 lever transplantation. 678 were provided club foot treatment.

– DeshGujarat