Dr. Yasmin inaugurates largest School Health Programme.

LAHORE -- Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid has launched the largest Program for health of school children under the Chief Minister's School Health and Nutrition Program.

The Launching ceremony took place here at the Government Higher School Jeevan Gondal, Sargodha on Friday.

Under this program, in the first phase, health and nutrition status of more than 50,000 public school children across the province would be examined.

Children requiring further screenings would be provided diagnosis and treatment through the Mobile Health Units and government facilities.

Dr. Yasmin Rashid said that the program had been launched under special directives from Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar.

The ceremony was attended by Provincial Minister for School Education Murad Raas, Provincial Minister for Labour, Ansar Majeed Khan, Secretary Primary Secondary Health Care Captain (retd) Usman Younas, MPA Iftikhar Hussain and Deputy Commissioner Sargodha.

Dr. Yasmin Rashid said that this year the project was piloted at the Central Model School in Lahore which would later expanded to 11 other schools of Lahore and it had now been scaled up to the entire province.

Mobile Health Units had been provided to nine Divisional Headquarters in the province. These were equipped with X-Ray and Ultra sound machines, blood screening facilities as well as doctors and specialists, she added.

She said the School Health Nutrition Supervisor would conduct a thorough medical examination of children and assess their physical and nutrition status.

Children requiring treatment would be provided diagnosis and treatment facilities at the Mobile Health Units or nearest health facilities, she said and added that a database of these children would be developed and their growth will be continuously monitored.

In the next phase, she said, the medical check up would be...