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Calcutta,
Monday, September 11,2000
Medical package for school children
By Krishnendu Bandopadhyay, The Times of India Service
CALCUTTA : A ready ambulance, half yearly health check
up, personal medical report carrying blood group and Rh factor,
personal identity cards with important details, group insurance
for individual students - sounds too good to be true? Project
Guardian, a unique package for schoolchildren has been prepared
by the Calcutta based National Institute of Behavioural Sciences.
Dr. Kedar Ranjan Banerjee, a psychiatrist, conceived the project.
Speaking of his experience during a NIBS survey in different
schools to determine average child health, he says : Most schoolchildren,
irrespective of their academic standard, are exposed to health
hazards and prone to accidents".
The death of five year old Pragya Dalmiya within the premises
of a central Calcutta school reaffirms Banerjee's idea of helplessness
of kids in school………..Against a subscription
of Rs. 480 per year, the facilities of Project Guardian can
be availed of by any student. Besides medical services and insurance,
each student can have regular pathological test at confessional
rate. The medical report drawn up gives a clear picture about
the disease a student already has. This would help the attending
doctor.", Banerjee adds……Card holders can also
get tele counseling services, optional psychometric report,
lists of specialists, health awareness programmes plus first
aid classes in schools for both students and teachers. Empirical
evidences, Banerjee claims, showed that most of us are not properly
informed that affect children in their formative years.
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