PM INITIATES "HEALTHY CHILD" CAMPAIGN

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ Children will be enrolled in a preventive examination and evaluated their health.

This action will run in a scope of an nationwide campaign called "Healthy children". It was approved by the cabinet meeting on Wednesday and is initiated by S.Batbold PM. He will chair a committee responsible for provide the campaign with management and methodology.

The campaign consists of works to be done by health sections of the ministries, aimags, soums and the city. The children will be diagnosed to check general health, oral hygiene, ear-nose-throat. Those with illnesses will be treated.

The campaign will run from February to December 30 of 2012 in two stages, MNT 18 billion will be allotted from the health insurance fund. The cabinet expects that the children's health database will be created, and a caries--the most spread among children--will be reduced 10-15 per cent as the campaign's result.

In 2010 the country's population stood at two million 780 thousans 700 people, one third of them were people aged under 18, 12 per cent--youths aged 19-24. The population's net growth is 1.7 per cent.

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