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Community health centres to be upgraded

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Minister for Health and Family Welfare P.K. Sreemathy has said that a programme to upgrade 115 community health centres in the State to national standards will be launched on Sunday.

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate the modernisation of 59 health centres as the first phase of the programme at a function to be held at Elappally. Each centre had been sanctioned Rs.20 lakh for the development of speciality units and other infrastructure. The second phase will be taken up in November.

The Minister said a larger programme to improve the facilities at the taluk, district and general hospitals had already been taken up. The programme was being implemented with requirements for the next 25 years.

Ms. Sreemathy said that medical camps and other programmes would be organised on October 1 as part of the observation of Day of Older Persons. The year beginning October would be observed as ‘Year of Older Persons.’ Various programmes for their welfare, including supply of spectacles and ayurveda kits, would be organised.

The State Handicapped Persons Welfare Corporation had been designated as the nodal agency for carrying out various welfare programmes for the elderly.

The Women’s Development Corporation would offer courses in home nursing and arrange for the employment of the nurses at the district level.

The State would also be taking up a pilot project each in Palakkad, Kollam and Kasaragod districts as part of the national rehabilitation programme for the disabled. The scheme would provide facilities for training the trainers of the disabled and their parents, and check-up for pregnant women.

A higher sum (Rs.85 lakh) was allocated to Kasaragod district for the benefit of the victims of endosulfan, she said.

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