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Anaemia Screening: From Nov 22, 13l Pu Students To Undergo Anaemia Screening | Bengaluru News_INSIGHT
Bengaluru: With Karnataka among the states with the highest anaemia burden, the government has decided to get into correction mode: It will subject first and second pre-university college students to a finger-prick test to check for deficiency.
The health department will cover around 13.6 lakh students from both government and private educational institutions from November 22.This will comprise the first phase of a comprehensiveanaemia screening for Karnataka as part of the Anaemia Muktha Poushtika Karnataka, a central and state initiative, said an official.
So far, the state depended on sample surveys and projected figures for the population. The testing was also done through a manual method, which was tedious. However, this year, with the digital hemoglobinometer which can give results in a few minutes, testing will be at a much larger scale, the official added.
As per statistics from the department of PU education, there are 13,65,480 students in classes 11 and 12 enrolled in government and private institutions.
Health workers will visit colleges for testing. Later, a door-to-door survey will also be held. The drawbacks of the current method of survey will be analysed and rectified while holding a state-wide screening, said the official. “A comprehensive testing was planned as the state and the Centre noticed that over the years, despite implementation of programmes to counter anaemia, its prevalence was not dropping.”
Plans are also afoot to provide folic acid and iron tablets to those detected with anaemia. Younger children, pregnant and lactating mothers and women of reproductive age group will be tested later.
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The health department will cover around 13.6 lakh students from both government and private educational institutions from November 22.This will comprise the first phase of a comprehensiveanaemia screening for Karnataka as part of the Anaemia Muktha Poushtika Karnataka, a central and state initiative, said an official.
So far, the state depended on sample surveys and projected figures for the population. The testing was also done through a manual method, which was tedious. However, this year, with the digital hemoglobinometer which can give results in a few minutes, testing will be at a much larger scale, the official added.
As per statistics from the department of PU education, there are 13,65,480 students in classes 11 and 12 enrolled in government and private institutions.
Health workers will visit colleges for testing. Later, a door-to-door survey will also be held. The drawbacks of the current method of survey will be analysed and rectified while holding a state-wide screening, said the official. “A comprehensive testing was planned as the state and the Centre noticed that over the years, despite implementation of programmes to counter anaemia, its prevalence was not dropping.”
Plans are also afoot to provide folic acid and iron tablets to those detected with anaemia. Younger children, pregnant and lactating mothers and women of reproductive age group will be tested later.
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