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In Ambattur, students turn health ambassadors

Staff Reporter

Municipality's novel move to get chikungunya message across

CHENNAI : Students of schools in Ambattur municipality now have a brand new identity card. The new card provided to them on Wednesday identifies them as health ambassadors for their homes and streets.

Ambattur municipality launched the novel idea to tackle chikungunya at DAV Boys High School at Mogappair. About 1,200 students from classes 6 to Plus 2 received the cards.

Students were required to wear the cards on their uniforms, which serve as both ID documents and carries information about the symptoms of the disease on the reverse.

The programme, adopted from a Chennai Corporation initiative, aims at spreading awareness among residents in the municipality through the school students. V. Chakrapani, municipal commissioner, said the programme launched on the instructions of the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration, would cover 48,000 students of 60 private and government schools, including Kamarajar Government Girls School, Velammal School and SBOA School, within a week.

The card carries slogans on destroying the mosquitoes and the origin of the vector borne disease. S.Rajasekaran, municipal health officer said that live demonstrations about the mosquito larvae that breed in clear water, use of liquid disinfectant and means to control the disease were conducted.

Walkathon

More than 500 students from three schools in and around Madipakkam and Quaid-e-Milleth College, Medavakkam participated in a walkathon conducted by Lions Clubs International on Wednesday at Madipakkam.

Students walked from Madipakkam Koot Road up to St. Thomas Mount Railway station carrying placards urging residents to keep their environs clean. They conducted a street play about the chikungunya disease and its prevention.

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