Last year, based on Shorter Treatment for Minimal Tuberculosis in Children (SHINE) research, the WHO strongly recommended shortening the TB treatment duration in non-severe paediatric TB cases from six-four months.
Third wave: State ropes in edu dept for kids’ awareness
ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Jul 11, 2021, 06:00 IST
Experts create COVID-19 guidelines for schools; teachers to ensure implementation
Children more often than not listen to their teachers and considering this, the state government has roped in the education department to create awareness among kids, ahead of the third COVID-19 wave.
According to health experts, the upcoming wave of the pandemic is expected to afflict children the most.
Anticipating this, health experts and
Paediatric Task Force members will draft guidelines for schools. These guidelines will be prepared with contributions from experts from the education department, school administration, teachers and other field experts, said
Covid-19: A coronavirus-linked threat to children in India
image captionChildren are thought to make up a mere 1-2% of all cases of coronavirus infections
This month, four children were admitted separately to a hospital in the central Indian state of Maharashtra with symptoms of breathlessness and falling blood pressure.
Their mothers had contracted Covid-19 more than a month ago. The children had developed no symptoms of the disease. At the 1,000-bed Kasturba Hospital in Sevagram, the young patients, however, were found to have antibodies to Covid-19, indicating past infection.
Now they were battling a rare, inflammatory and potentially life threatening condition called multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). This condition usually develops four to six weeks after children and teenagers have recovered from Covid-19.
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