Primary and Secondary Health Department Punjab is celebrating "Khadim-e-Punjab Sehat Khidmat Week" across the province from August 15, 2017. During the week, the Department would organize consolidated health camps at district & tehsil headquarters hospitals, selected rural health centres and basic health centres. Blood screening for diagnosis of various diseases would be carried out besides vaccination of children and provision of awareness regarding healthy life.
The Secretary Primary and Secondary Health, Ali Jan Khan revealed this during a briefing here Saturday. A comprehensive plan of prevention is being implemented in Punjab under which "Khadim-e-Punjab Sehat Khidmat Week" is being observed at district level, he said.
He said that blood screening of communicable/non communicable diseases, vaccination of children, medical checkup of pregnant women would be done at these camps and de-worming medicines would also be administered to the children. Lady health workers would create awareness regarding hygiene among the women at community level and iron tablets would be distributed among the anemic women, he added.
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