Question: ‘SAANS’ (Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully) campaign is related to which state?
(a) Punjab
(b)Himachal Pradesh
(c)UP
(d) MP
Answer- a
Related facts
- Punjab Government on Wednesday (27May 2021) launched SAANS campaign to prevent and treat pneumonia amongst State’s children.
- Here, SAANS stands for — Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully.
- It is notable that mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in a Covid hit child can become an additional co-morbid condition to which he or she can succumb to death.
- Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in the country and it contributes to approximately 15 percent of mortality.
By — Pankaj Pandey.