Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
World's largest school-based deworming programme in Bihar
- Those children who were left out can receive their dose on 28th January -
Over 1.7 crore children in Bihar were targeted for deworming treatment using Albendazole, on 23rd January. Albendazole is drug recommended by the World Health Organization to combat parasitic worms, and has been safely used to treat hundreds of millions of children worldwide.
This was the third round of deworming using Albendazole in Bihar state, and the number of children targeted makes it the world?s largest school-based deworming initiative. These 1.7 crore (17 million - Ro) school-age children, both enrolled and non-enrolled, were targeted for deworming treatment in all government schools in Bihar, as part of the Bihar School-Based Mass Deworming Programme. Over 70,000 schools took part in the programme being carried out jointly by the State Health Society of Bihar (SHSB) and the Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC), with support from ?Deworm the World Initiative?, part of the global non-profit organization Evidence Action.
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http://www.citizen-news.org/2014/01/worlds-largest-school-based-deworming.html
- Those children who were left out can receive their dose on 28th January -
Over 1.7 crore children in Bihar were targeted for deworming treatment using Albendazole, on 23rd January. Albendazole is drug recommended by the World Health Organization to combat parasitic worms, and has been safely used to treat hundreds of millions of children worldwide.
This was the third round of deworming using Albendazole in Bihar state, and the number of children targeted makes it the world?s largest school-based deworming initiative. These 1.7 crore (17 million - Ro) school-age children, both enrolled and non-enrolled, were targeted for deworming treatment in all government schools in Bihar, as part of the Bihar School-Based Mass Deworming Programme. Over 70,000 schools took part in the programme being carried out jointly by the State Health Society of Bihar (SHSB) and the Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC), with support from ?Deworm the World Initiative?, part of the global non-profit organization Evidence Action.
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http://www.citizen-news.org/2014/01/worlds-largest-school-based-deworming.html