416 CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM RHD\/CHD TREATED AT PGIMER & OTHER HOSPITALS<\/p>\n
CHANDIGARH,<\/p>\n
The Punjab Government issued strict instructions to all the Civil Surgeons to ensure the complete screening of students studying in Government and<\/p>\n
Government aided schools as well as children registered at Anganwadi Centres under Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK).<\/p>\n
Disclosing this here today, Minister for Health and Welfare Department Mr. Brahm Mohindra said that civil surgeons have also been instructed to issue<\/p>\n
healthcare cards to all children who are eligible to get free of cost tertiary and healthcare services under RBSK. He said that main objective of child health<\/p>\n
screening is to diagnose children up to 18 years for 4Ds-Defects at Birth, Diseases, Deficiencies and Developmental Delays including Disabilities. \u201cChildren<\/p>\n
diagnosed with illness would provide free of cost treatment including surgeries at tertiary level\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Giving details of screening programme, he said that dedicated RBSK\u2019s teams visited the 18365 schools where 1914164 students screened. Similarly, these<\/p>\n
teams have also visited in Anganwadi Centres where 595734 children were screened during first visit while 540432 children were screened during the second<\/p>\n
visit. He said that around 54499 children of schools and AWCs have availed the free of cost healthcare services who were diagnosed under screening<\/p>\n
programme during February, 2017 to December, 2017.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mohindra further said that children who were suffering from congenital heart disease (CHD) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) were being referred at DMC<\/p>\n
& CMC Hospital Ludhiana, Max Super Specialties Hospital & Fortis Hospital, S.A.S. Nagar for the tertiary healthcare services. He also said that around 416<\/p>\n
children suffering from RHD\/CHD have been successfully operated and treated at PGIMER, Chandigarh and at private empanelled hospitals. He said that 16<\/p>\n
children suffering from Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PIDD) are also getting free of cost treatment from PGIMER Chandigarh.<\/p>\n
Divulging more he said that 5 District Early Intervention Centres (DEIC) have been established at the District Hospital Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana,<\/p>\n
Roopnagar and Tarn\u2013Taran and soon DEIC would be established in all rest of districts to provide quick treatment and healthcare services to the children<\/p>\n
suffering from diseases in the state.<\/p>\n
He further added that Civil Surgeons, District RBSK Nodal Officers, District RBSK Coordinators and SMOs of CHC\/SDH\/DH have also been instructed to treat<\/p>\n
the cases of affected children on priority basis to cater best healthcare services as earliest to recover them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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