{"id":30614,"date":"2017-08-30T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=30614"},"modified":"2017-08-30T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T01:00:42","slug":"national-deworming-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/national-deworming-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"National Deworming Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On which date the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry started its 2nd round of National Deworming Day?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) August 8<br \/>\n(b) August 10<br \/>\n(c) August 11<br \/>\n(d) August 12<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On August 10th, 2017, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare started its 2nd round of National Deworming Day (NDD) 2017 in 33 States\/UTs.<\/li>\n<li>The 1st round of Deworming day was held on February 10th, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>National Deworming Day is organized twice in a year covering all the children from 1-19 years of age except the States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh where deworming is carried out once in a year.<\/li>\n<li>The NDD program has been launched in 2015 as WHO estimates that 220 million children below 14 years of age are at risk of STH infections in India.<\/li>\n<li>The Deworming program is India\u2019s commitment to a comprehensive national response to the public health threat posed by worms.<\/li>\n<li>This is one of the largest public health programs reaching a large number of children during a short period.<\/li>\n<li>These parasites consume nutrients from the children they infect, thus aggravating malnutrition and retarding physical development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/national-deworming-day-today\/article19459373.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/national-deworming-day-today\/article19459373.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=169771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=169771<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/printrelease.aspx?relid=158380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/printrelease.aspx?relid=158380<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On which date the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry started its 2nd round of National Deworming Day? (a) August 8 (b) August 10 (c) August 11 (d) August 12 Answer- (b) Related facts: On August 10th, 2017, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare started its 2nd round of National Deworming Day (NDD) 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-30614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-day-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}