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Activities like Yoga, Zumba, Teleconsultation and Nikshay Poshan Abhiyan along with Non-Communicable Diseases screening and Drug Distribution will be taken up at the health centres. Sickle Cell Disease screening will also be undertaken as part of these countrywide health melas, said the heal
Over 21 students fell ill and seven other students were hospitalised after allegedly drinking contaminated water at Government Engineering College in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a health official said on Friday.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have found a connection between having sickle cell disease (SCD), a hereditary blood ailment, and having a significantly increased risk of maternal morbidity and mortality.
This card will be divided into three different colour code categories. If a female has sickle cell anaemia then she will carry this card and the same will be followed with males also. The card will be issued based on the screening results and it will be in blue and pink colour.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said that an awareness programme will be started in the tribal areas which are badly affected by Sickle Cell Anaemia.
"Sickle cell anemia is a major disease among the tribal population. Seven crore people below the age group of 40 years will be screened for this disease," Mandaviya added.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her budget speech in Parliament, said that the central government aims to eliminate Sickle Cell Anemia by 2047, and a mission will soon be launched in this regard.
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