TB awareness signature campaign held
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Government doctors and staff participate in a TB awareness programme held at Thoothukudi Government Medical College Hospital on Thursday.
A signature campaign was organised here on Thursday as part of TB Awareness Week observed between February 17 and 23.
The event is observed in all 14 TB units in the district
The signature campaign was organised at Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital with the motto ‘Accelerate war against TB’. Dean Revathi Balan inaugurated the campaign. Deputy Director (Tuberculosis) K. Sundaralingam said diabetics, those with hypertension and smokers, who were vulnerable to TB, should go in for X-ray and sputum screening if they had symptoms such as fever and cough for about two weeks and loss of weight.
Children given polio drops
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1,35,537 kids were immunised in Thoothukudi
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THOOTHUKUDI
Through 1221 camps, a total of 1,35,537 children in the age group of 0-5 years were administered polio drops here on Sunday.
Every year, as per the WHO protocol and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare guidelines, the polio vaccine had been administered to children across the country. The two dosages administered over a gap of 15 days, was being given to the children. Apart from the Health department, officials from other government departments, NGOs and service organisations led by the Rotarians were roped in on the mega project.