Health education centre for kids soon

To educate school children from an early age on personal hygiene and how diseases can be prevented, a health education centre has been proposed on the lines of the US centre in Indiana. The project would be a collaborative effort of Chandigarh Rotary Club and UT administration.

A land will be allotted for the centre, though the area for the same is yet to be identified. Two doctors from PGIMER and Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) 32 were sent to the US recently to study the feasibility of the centre. A project report is being prepared to be submitted to the UT adviser for the same.

“We had sent Dr Atul Sachdev from GMCH and Dr J S Thakur from the school of public health, PGIMER to study the model in the US before replicating the idea here. The project is funded by the Rotary Club,“ said health secretary UT Anurag Aggarwal.

“It's an early stage of the project, which aims at teaching school children about personal hygiene. Also there will be working models that will enable students to understand human body parts in an interesting way,“ said former president of the Rotary Club R K Saboo, who was also a part of this visit. He said, “At a later stage, we will have teleconference where the students can interact with experts in any part of the world,“ said Saboo.

If the proposal is accepted, such a centre will be unique to the city. Unlike a classroom session, the centre will have interesting model and visual learning aids. “We are drafting the project which will be tailor made for our requirement. After it is introduced for government schools, we will engage private schools as well,“ said Thakur.

Source : The Hindu