PIRAVOM: The State Government has given the nod to expand the School Health Programme to all schools in the Piravom Assembly constituency. Speaker K Radhakrishnan will inaugurate the project at the MKM Higher Secondary School in Piravom on Saturday.
A total of 25,000 students included in the 45 government schools, 27 aided schools and 26 unaided schools will be covered in the project, National Rural Health Mission district officer M Beena said.
All students will be distributed detailed health cards.
A sum of `5 lakh has been sanctioned for the project.
M J Jacob MLA presided over the meeting. DMO K T Ramani, district panchayat vicepresident K N Sugathan, and Pampakuda block panchayat president C K Prakash spoke