CM asks Collector to ensure all kids are covered under Palakarimpu

Ongole: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday directed District Collector V Vinay Chand, to implement the 21-day Palakarimpu programme, a programme to administer vaccines to children below five years of age, in coordination with medical and health, women and child welfare and other government departments.

Addressing the District Collectors along with the Medical and Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas here from Vijayawada through video conference mode, Naidu asked the medical and health, women and child welfare and poverty eradication department should work with coordination and should ensure that children in 0-5 years age group were 100 per cent covered under the programme.

The objective of the programme is to slash the death of children in the 0-5 years age group at least by half. He wanted the government departments to identify the people suffering from nutritional deficiency and guide them to proper facilities for treatment.

He directed Anganwadi activists, Sadhikaramitras and panchayat secretaries to work as a team and ensure people of the village are healthy. He asked the authorities to release a bulletin on 4th of every month. He said that he would review the progress again on April 4. He desired that more progress should be achieved within six months. Vinay Chand released wall posters, Arogya Andhra-Prakasam district health bulletin and other bulletins.

District Medical and Health officer Dr Rajya Lakshmi, ICDS project director Sarojini, MEPMA project director Annapurna, municipal commissioner Venkata Krishna, additional DM&HO Dr Padmavatamma, medical and health department officials and others took part in the programme.