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These difficulties have been compounded by Covid-19. Children have faced disruption to education, essential services, and protection. Mental illness, an increasing concern among children before the pandemic, has been exacerbated by the isolation, uncertainty, and loss so many children are confronting. Domestic violence has increased, placing many children in dangerous situations.
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Several major hospitals managed to simultaneously run non-COVID-19 services during the second wave
Unlike during the first wave of COVID-19, several major hospitals in Chennai managed to simultaneously run non-COVID-19 services, except having to suspend elective surgeries. Now, with a steady decline in cases, the number of people visiting outpatient departments is on the rise, and hospitals are all set to resume elective surgeries soon.
Last year, some major hospitals brought their non-COVID-19 services to a halt as the inflow of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 started to rise. However, this has not been the case during the second wave all major government hospitals ran outpatient services by making alternative arrangements.
The dean of the Stanley Hospital, on Saturday, initiated the first phase of the project, that is being carried out in association with Masusa Foundation NGO by distributing ten. pieces of the orthotics equipment worth Rs 50,000.
Director of Institute of Social Pediatrics, while speaking about the same to a media house said that the distribution will be made to the children who might need the equipment and that the distribution would be done in a phased manner.
He also appealed the children from poor backgrounds who are in need of such equipment to reach out to the hospital s District Early Intervention Centre that has been set up under the National Health Mission and runs with an objective of effectively identifying children with deficiencies as well as birth defects and eventually providing treatment for them..
Fourteen kids to undergo free heart surgeries in Chennai under CM’s health insurance scheme
Under the Centre’s Rashtriya Bal Swasthiya Karyakram (RBSK) programme, a cardiac screening camp was held at Stanley GH on Friday
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Under the Centre’s Rashtriya Bal Swasthiya Karyakram (RBSK) programme, 40 children were screened for congenital defects at Stanley GH on Friday (Photo | Special arrangement) By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Fourteen children with congenital heart defects will undergo specialised and advanced surgeries in government and private hospitals in Chennai free of cost under the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme (CMHIS).