Review meeting of Ayushman Bharat School Health and Welfare Program organized
District Level Coordination Committee meeting under Ayushman Bharat School Health and Welfare Program was held here today headed by Deputy Commissioner Anupam Kashyap where the program was reviewed.
Deputy Commissioner said that activities should be increased under the program in schools. Also, instructions are given to make various programs effective in adjustable ways. Speed up children against drugs in schools. Putting the same schoolgirls a priority to detailed information about crimes against women. He said that every department should act actively in making the program practical.
He said 688 government schools in Shimla district have been included under this program. Out of these 1376 teachers, 1153 teachers have been trained under the program. 13 thousand 760 sessions have been targeted since April. Out of these 1956 sessions, benefited 50 thousand 296.
Program focused on 11 points
The School Health and Welfare Program is being conducted under the joint audition of the Central Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Education. Under Ayushman India, the school health program will have special focus of the campaign on 11 points. Growing healthy, promoting a healthy lifestyle, emotional wellbeing and mental health, mutual relationships, citizen values and responsibilities, gender equality, nutritional health and hygiene, prohibition of addiction, reproductive and HIV prevention, protection against injury and violence and safe use of the internet, media and gadgets Has been included.
Envoy of health and wellness in schools
Under this program, two teachers in each school, previously one male and one female, have been named as “Health and Welfare Envoys”, which are scheduled working points under the Ayushman Bharat School Health and Welfare Program for one hour every week. Training is mandatory for. Indeed the health enrichment messages prescribed under this program have positive impact on improving health practices in schools and society as students will act as envoy of health and wellness in society. A committee has been formed at the district level headed by the district coordinator, chief medical officer, medical officer, program officer national teen health program, adolescent health consultant, deputy director of primary & higher education, diet coordinator, district coordinator, district ICDS program manager and district coordinator of Mamta program Is it.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Shimla Abhishek Verma, Chief Medical Officer Rakesh Pratap, District Program Officer Mamta Paul, Assistant Director Primary Education Sunita Kumari, Principal Diet Jay Dev Negi and other departments officers and staff were also present on the occasion.
