National Deworming day - Latest Current Affairs for Competitive Exams

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). NDD is observed bi-annually on 10th February and 10th August in all States and UTs followed by mop-up activities.

National Deworming day:

India’s first National Deworming Day took place on the 10th of February, 2015, to treat intestinal worm infections in all children aged 1-19.
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.

All the children are provided deworming tablet in school and anganwadis.
Besides the deworming tablet, various health promotion activities related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are organised in schools and anganwadis.
India accounts for over one quarter of the world’s infected children through soil-transmitted helminth infection.
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.

By Ramayan Upadhyay