{"id":69760,"date":"2019-03-05T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=69760"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:51:40","slug":"national-deworming-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/national-deworming-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"National Deworming day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: National Deworming day is celebrated on-<br> (a) 9 February<br> (b) 10 February<br> (c) 11 February<br> (d) 12 February<br> Answer: (b)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) conducted its eighth round of National Deworming Day (NDD). NDD is observed bi-annually on 10th February and 10th August in all States and UTs followed by mop-up activities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>National Deworming day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>India\u2019s first National Deworming Day took place on the 10th of February, 2015, to treat intestinal worm infections in all children aged 1-19.<\/li><li>It will mobilizes health personnel, state governments and other stakeholders to prioritize investment in control of soil transmitted helminthes (STH) infections, one of the most common infections.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>All the children are provided deworming tablet in school and anganwadis.<\/li><li>Besides the deworming tablet, various health promotion activities related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are organised in schools and anganwadis.<\/li><li>India accounts for over one quarter of the world&#8217;s infected children through soil-transmitted helminth infection.<\/li><li>The NDD program is a cost effective program at scale that continues to reach of crores of children and adolescents with deworming through a safe medicine Albendazole.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>By Ramayan Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1563589\">http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1563589<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ciff.org\/grant-portfolio\/india-national-deworming-programme\/\">https:\/\/ciff.org\/grant-portfolio\/india-national-deworming-programme\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhp.gov.in\/national-deworming-day_pg\">https:\/\/www.nhp.gov.in\/national-deworming-day_pg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: National Deworming day is celebrated on- (a) 9 February (b) 10 February (c) 11 February (d) 12 February Answer: (b) Related facts: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) conducted its eighth round of National Deworming Day (NDD). 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