Mangaluru: District to reach over five lakh students on National Deworming day
Mangaluru: Stressing upon the importance of de-worming and ensuring better health and nutrition for children in the age group of 1-19, the department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India will organize National De-Worming day on February 8, 2019.
Dakshin Kannada DHO Dr. Ramakrishna, on Wednesday, held a press meet at his office here to brief the media about the plans of district administration for February 8, drive.
Speaking to the presspersons Dr. Ramakrishna, informed that the district health administration has set a target of 5,15,433 students across the district between the age of 1-19, who will receive the medicine in their respective schools, PU Colleges and ITI institutes across the district.
Speaking of the rumors of side effects of the medicine, Dr. Ramakrishna cleared “There is absolutely no side-effects of the medicine, it is safe and is the need of the body for every child aged between 1-19 years”.
“It’s a 400mg tablet, which de-worms the body. Kids in the age group of 1-2 years will be given half the tablet (equivalent to 200mg tablet), while students and kids of age group between 2-19 years will be given full dose. It has been made compulsory for all the schools and students to take the medicine, nobody can refrain from taking the tablet” Ramakrishna added while also stating that students and kids who are suffering from fever or viral infections, or those who have suffered it in the recent past can take the exception.
He also requested parents to not reject the medicine for their pupils nor pressurize the school officials for exception for their kids.
The students who fall into the age group, but haven’t been admitted to school or Anganwadi for any reason can also avail the medicine at their nearest school on Feb 8, free of cost.
He said a whopping 98% of the target was achieved last year by medicating nearly four lakh students.
About De-worming day:
The National Deworming Day is an initiative of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to make every child in the country worm free. This is one of the largest public health programs reaching large number of children during a short period.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
