It's a brief presentation on the national deworming day. Target audiences are front-line health workers.

1. National Deworming Day
10 & 17 February 2020

2. 68% of children in India at risk

4. • No direct person-to-person transmission
• No infection from fresh faeces, because eggs passed in faeces need
about three weeks to mature in the soil before they become infective
• Do not multiply in the human host, reinfection occurs only as a result
of contact with infective stages

5. Why NDD?

6. National deworming day
• From the year 2015
• Two times in a year (Feb and Aug)
• Two sessions each time
• National Deworming day (NDD) – 10th Feb
• Mop-Up Day (MUD) – 17th Feb

8. Departments involved:
• MoHFW > State > Dist. > PHC > HW/ANM > ASHA
• Department of Education > Schools
• Ministry of Women and Child Development > CDBO > Anganwadi
center > AWW

9. Target age group:
1 – 19 years
• Children enrolled in all schools (government & private)
• Children registered in AWCs
• Unregistered and out of school children
Line listing (Village & ASHA wise) by 5th February

10. Mapping and identification of out of school children:
• Polytechnics, ITI, degree colleges, universities (1st year students),
vocational training centers, nursing colleges
• crèches, play schools, child care homes, shelter homes, juvenile
homes
• slum areas (notified, non-notified)
• construction sites, industrial sites, Bricklin sites etc.
Advance micro-planning for special outreach camps (non anganwadi
sites) e.g. at bus stand and railway station

11. Albendazole - dose
Asked to wait for 2 hours after consuming the Albendazole tablet

13. Adverse effects
• Nausea, vomiting,
• abdominal pain,
• headache
• Common for children with heavy worm infestation
• If present for > 24 hours, child should be taken to
• A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare
• Any symptom to be reported to
Teacher/ASHA/AWW > > HW/ANM >> MO

19. School AWC ASHA

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