From the Statesman on 11th April 2013 "Administration to bear surgery costs of ICDS kids"

Administration to bear surgery costs of ICDS kids

10 April 2013statesman news serviceDURGAPUR, 10 APRIL: The district administration has agreed to bear surgery expenses of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) kids suffering from cardiac ailments. Five such children have primarily been selected for the same.Roni Mete, around four-and-a-half-years underwent successful surgery on 4 April and is now recovering. He belongs to a BPL family from the  Bonkati village, Kanksa PS area.

 

On 5 April, Anita Hasda was admitted to a private hospital. Parvin Khatoon, another such patient was admitted on 8 April.Today, Nandini Kisku and Sk Niamuddin, underwent cardiac surgeries.

The district administration provided Rs 1.20 lakh for both. The DM, Burdwan, Mr Onkar S Meena, the one responsible for the venture, said: “We run 9,300 ICDS Centres in Burdwan and we had initiated a programme to take stock of the children's health, which exposed that many were suffering from malnutrition and that some were also facing acute cardiac disorder.” He also said: “We discussed the matter with the private tertiary care hospital, whether they would agree to operate the children against subsidies expense.”

The DM said the undertaking became possible after the hospital authority in Durgapur agreed.After last year’s positive health check-up camps in ICDS Centres, the district authority has now replicated the affirmative for ICDS kids. Growth monitoring, including regular health and weight check-ups of 5 lakh kids were conducted at ICDS centres of the district, covering 39 projects, by ICDS workers visiting each house in the past six months across the district. In all, around 3,400 children were identified through screening with below average growth moderate to severely malnourished children and they were facilitated health check up by medical teams and child specialists to ascertain their causes of illness and poor body growth. On their recommendations, the officials said that it was found that out of them 146 children needed immediate surgeries for serious ailments related to heart, eyes, kidney, hernia, orthopaedic.

The DM said: “We submitted a proposal to the state and got sanction of Rs 35 lakh from NRHM funds for treatment of these kids at private and state-run hospitals at our expenses to be paid to a hospital of the parents' choice.”

Economic Rehabilitation grants, ex gratia to next of kins to 152 families at Burdwan Sanskriti Metro today

District administration has arranged distribution of Economic Rehabilitation grants and Ex Gratia grants to economically poor families who are in distress. 152 beneficiaries collected cheques from District Magistrate, Burdwan on 11th April 2013 at 12 noon at Sanskriti Metro.

• ER grants provided to 80 persons today to the persons who have insignificant means of livelihood, mostly beggars, destitute, disabled and single family females and divorced. We extended benefits to 200 spending Rs 16.65 lakhs this year.
• Each of them were given Rs 5000 for purchase of sewing machine, stitching machines and Rs 10000 each for starting their own business like tea stall, goatary, grocery shop, ready made garments, van rickshaw, cycle repair shop etc so as to earn for their livelihood. Beneficiaries expressed their satisfaction and felt honoured to start their own business with the small grants provided by administration.
• District administration took initiated to rehabilitate beggars, orphans from Railway Stations, Streets and Bus stands of major towns in Burdwan through special surveys conducted during winter last year. While, some of them were deported to their home states, locals have been selected for Economically Rehabilitation schemes of Disaster Management department. Some of those identified in Urban areas as well Blocks are being provided grants today.
• We are also distributing Ex Gratia grants of Rs 2 lakhs in each case to Next of Kins who died during natural calamities like storms, cyclones, floods, snake bite and major road accidents. 72 families families were given the grants sanctioned by the District Magistrate today. This year administration released Rs 214 lakhs to 325 Next of Kins in Burdwan district.

We are happy to assist these distressful families and endeavour to continue such welfare activities. Further grants will be distributed from Bocks and Sub divisions.

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