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Mumbai: Health checkup drive reveals 28.9K city kids have issues
Updated On: 13 March, 2023 05:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey
Nearly 4.4 lakh children and adolescents were screened from February 9 to March 3, in largest such exercise in past three years
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The screening of kids was suspended for three years due to the pandemic. File pic
After a gap of almost three years, the health department has resumed screening schoolchildren for ailments. The exercise was put on ice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with schoolchildren, the civic body is also screening adolescents; and so far seven per cent of those screened have been found to be experiencing various issues, most of them minor.
The statewide ‘Aware Parent, Healthy Child’ campaign was launched in the city on February 9. As part of the campaign, checkups of children aged 18 years and below are ongoing. According to the BMC health department, 4,40,930 children were screened till March 3 and 28,931 children were found to be suffering from conditions.
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