The Times of India             10.12.2013

Vadodara Municipal Corporation examines over 54,000 school children in health drive

VADODARA: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has examined over 54,000 children under the state government's school health check up initiative. It provided treatment to over 16,000 students.

According to VMC, the drive covers the entire spectrum of children from newborns to 18-year-olds. While the scope of the drive is to essentially cover those children who are at anganwadis, primary schools and secondary schools, it even attends those children who are not connected to any of these and are 14-year-olds or younger.

Data released by the civic body states that 54,112 school children were checked during the drive and 16,054 of these children were given treatment during the drive. A VMC release stated that 170 of these children needed further treatment and were referred to the SSG Hospital and Jamnabhai Hospital in the city.

The release added that those children who needed treatment for cancer as well as ailments related to the heart and kidneys were referred to state hospitals and institutes in Ahmedabad. The state government will bear the expenses for such treatment. Spectacles were also provided to children whose eye testing revealed problems in vision.