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Campaign to facilitate disabled persons, pregnant women in HP

Campaign to facilitate disabled persons, pregnant women in HP

Campaign to facilitate disabled persons, pregnant women in HP

After successful implementation of campaigns to clean the water resources weeding out cannabis and making Himachal Pradesh as open defecation state the state government on Friday decided to start two new social campaigns for disabled persons and pregnant women.

The new campaigns would focus at identification of eligible disabled person for social security pension and early registration of pregnancies to keep check on child sex ratio.

A meeting to chalk out strategies for implementation of these campaigns in the state was held here today under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary V C Pharka Deputy Commissioners. Higher officers of health education social welfare and women and child development departments were also present in the meeting.

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The Chief Secretary said the state government was working on a goal to examine maximum number of disabled before World Disability Day onnbsp;3 December this yearnbsp;so that all eligible could start getting social security pension fromnbsp;1 January 2017.

He said medical camps would be organised at block level throughout the state in the supervision of concerned Deputy Commissioners for screening of persons with disability.

ldquo;The Chief Medical Officers of the districts have already chalked out the plans for organising these camps in the presence of specialised doctors. The Anganwari and Asha workers would motivate the persons with pre-disability symptoms to attend these camps for their medical examinationrdquo; he said.

Pharka said that government would also start another campaign for early registration of pregnancies and it would be ensured that all pregnancies were registered within a period of 70 days with the Anganwari Kendras.

He said tracking of the results would be done on periodic basis which would help in getting information about sex ratio at birth besides maintaining the data of total pregnancies and missing pregnanciesnbsp;in 70 daysnbsp;in a particular district.

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