Deworming tablets to be given to 7.11 lakh women, children in Virudhunagar district
Virudhunagar district officials have launched a mass deworming campaign targeting over 7 lakh women and children. The initiative aims to combat health issues like anemia and physical developmental delays caused by soil-transmitted worms.
Why it matters
Public health initiatives like this are critical for improving long-term developmental outcomes in children and reducing anemia rates in rural populations.
A total of 7.11 lakh women and students would be given deworming tablets in Virudhunagar district marking National Deworming Day.
Collector N. O. Sukhaputra on Monday inaugurated the distribution of tablets to students at Soolakkarai Government Higher Secondary School.
Under the programme, a total of 5.78 lakh children children aged 1 year up to 19 years and 1.33 lakh women aged 20 to 30 years would be given the tablets in Virudhunagar district, the Collector said.
The camps were conducted by 292 village health nurses, 1,504 anganwadi workers, 3,280 school teachers. Also, 11 mobile medical teams and 22 Rashtriy aBal Swathya Karyakram teams and 11 block medical officers supervised the distribution of tablets.
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