Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) will feed deworming tablets to all the school-going students aged between five and 16 years in the city.
Along with primary and secondary level schools, all madrasas, mosque-based schools and orphanages will be brought under the deworming tablet feeding programme.
The campaign will be held as part of the National Worm Control Week- 2022 scheduled to be observed from March 20 to March 27.
Apart from this, the corporation will conduct health checkups of the students by doctors from March 27 to April 2.
RCC officials disclosed the information while addressing a central advocacy meeting in its conference hall here Sunday.
The main objective of the meeting was to disseminate ideas among the stakeholders and other policy-makers so that they could play a vital role in creating awareness on controlling the worm.
RCC Chief Health Officer Dr AFM Anjuman Ara Begum addressed the meeting as focal person, while Panel Mayor Shariful Islam Babu addressed as chief guest.
With RCC Ward Councilor Nuruzzaman Tuku in the chair, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Secretary Moshiur Rahman, Deputy Director of the Department of Family Planning Dr Kostary Amina Queen, Assistant Director of the Department of Health Dr Nazma Akhter and Divisional Coordinator of World Health Organization Dr Muhammad Kamruzzaman.
The discussants unanimously underlined the need for creating widespread health awareness among the school-going children for controlling many communicable diseases.
Terming the schoolboys and girls as the most vulnerable to worm infection, they unequivocally called for making them aware about health hygiene and using sanitary latrine with washing hands properly before taking every meal.
Dr Anjuman Begum said if the large number of students could be prevented from the worm-infection, they would be protected from different intestinal diseases easily.
She pointed out that the teachers have a vital role in this regard and said knowledge, attitude and practice could help prevent 80 percent of both the communicable and non-communicable diseases along with malnutrition.
