Mother and child health week: Vaccinations, medical checkups from May 2
People urged to benefit from education sessions during the week.
RAHIM YAR KHAN/BAHAWALPUR/GUJRANWALA/SARGODHA:
A Mother and Child Health Week is being observed in the province from May 21 to May 26 to raise awareness about pressing healthcare concerns by the Health Department’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare (NPFPPHC).
A seminar will be held in connection with the week at the Khairpur Tamewali tehsil headquarters (THQ) hospital on Sunday (today), NPFPPHC district coordinator Dr Attiqur Rehman told the media on Saturday. He said people would be provided with information about the week and answers to any queries they have about their health at the event.
He said other activities during the week would include a door-to-door campaign to vaccinate children aged between two years and six years and women against various diseases. He said 1,201 teams had been formed for the vaccination campaign. These teams would be supervised by 83 area in charges and five tehsil- and eight district-level monitors.
The district coordinator said 86 healthcare centres had been set up for distribution of vaccine and other drugs besides the door to door campaign during the week.
He said 18,554 children of up to two years of age and 245,862 from two to five years of age had been registered for vaccination and 25,147 pregnant women registered for medical examination during the week.
In Rahim Yar Khan, the week will be inaugurated with a Health Mela at a basic health unit in Abadpur, public health specialist Dr Hasan Khan said.
District support officer Muhammad Furqan said special sessions would be arranged during the week where doctors, paramedics, lady health supervisors and other officials would be present to answer questions and educate people about maternal and child health.
He urged people to cooperate with the administration in its anti-polio campaign as well. He said people should not believe in the rumors some elements were spreading about the vaccines used in the polio immunisation campaign.
In Sargodha, an awareness raising session will be held every day during the week starting Monday. The first of these sessions will be held at Government Girls High School Chak 101 North. It will be followed by similar sessions at Government Girls High School in Chak 133 (on Tuesday), Govt Girls Elementary School No 2 in Nawan Lok Sahiwal (on Wednesday), Govt Girls Middle School Chak 13 South Bhalwal (on Thursday) and Govt Girls Primary School Ilahabad, Shahpur (on Friday). Besides mother and child health, topics covered in these sessions would be hygiene, potable water, water pollution, polio and hazards of urinating in open spaces.
In Gujranwala, 1,706 lady health workers will participate in the door to door vaccination campaign during the week.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2012.
A Mother and Child Health Week is being observed in the province from May 21 to May 26 to raise awareness about pressing healthcare concerns by the Health Department’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare (NPFPPHC).
A seminar will be held in connection with the week at the Khairpur Tamewali tehsil headquarters (THQ) hospital on Sunday (today), NPFPPHC district coordinator Dr Attiqur Rehman told the media on Saturday. He said people would be provided with information about the week and answers to any queries they have about their health at the event.
He said other activities during the week would include a door-to-door campaign to vaccinate children aged between two years and six years and women against various diseases. He said 1,201 teams had been formed for the vaccination campaign. These teams would be supervised by 83 area in charges and five tehsil- and eight district-level monitors.
The district coordinator said 86 healthcare centres had been set up for distribution of vaccine and other drugs besides the door to door campaign during the week.
He said 18,554 children of up to two years of age and 245,862 from two to five years of age had been registered for vaccination and 25,147 pregnant women registered for medical examination during the week.
In Rahim Yar Khan, the week will be inaugurated with a Health Mela at a basic health unit in Abadpur, public health specialist Dr Hasan Khan said.
District support officer Muhammad Furqan said special sessions would be arranged during the week where doctors, paramedics, lady health supervisors and other officials would be present to answer questions and educate people about maternal and child health.
He urged people to cooperate with the administration in its anti-polio campaign as well. He said people should not believe in the rumors some elements were spreading about the vaccines used in the polio immunisation campaign.
In Sargodha, an awareness raising session will be held every day during the week starting Monday. The first of these sessions will be held at Government Girls High School Chak 101 North. It will be followed by similar sessions at Government Girls High School in Chak 133 (on Tuesday), Govt Girls Elementary School No 2 in Nawan Lok Sahiwal (on Wednesday), Govt Girls Middle School Chak 13 South Bhalwal (on Thursday) and Govt Girls Primary School Ilahabad, Shahpur (on Friday). Besides mother and child health, topics covered in these sessions would be hygiene, potable water, water pollution, polio and hazards of urinating in open spaces.
In Gujranwala, 1,706 lady health workers will participate in the door to door vaccination campaign during the week.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2012.