Session for media on deworming drive tomorrow
The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training will conduct an orientation session tomorrow for media persons on the deworming programme for ICT school-based children aged between five and 16 years.
According to a notification issued by the ministry on Thursday, the session will be held to engage media persons to create public awareness in the upcoming round of the deworming drive to be held in March.
The orientation session will be held at the Islamabad Model School for Boys F-8/4 held on Saturday at 3PM.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that over 1.5 billion people were infected globally with Soil-Transmitted Helminthes (STH)-Intestinal Worms, with over 835 million children worldwide in need of treatment. Pakistan is among the top-10 highest-burden countries for STH globally.
A recent national STH prevalence survey found that over 16 million school-age children in Pakistan were at risk of STH and require regular treatment including over 570,000 children in Islamabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2021.