Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao on Wednesday launched a brand new well being programme for ladies, named ‘Arogya Mahila’, on the event of International Women’s Day.

Under the programme, assessments could be carried out for ladies each Tuesday initially in 100 well being centres and medicines offered to them freed from price.

The ladies, if mandatory, could be despatched to ‘referral hospitals’ for additional medical care.

Harish Rao, who launched the programme in Karimnagar, stated one other scheme ‘Nutrition package’ could be began for the good thing about pregnant ladies after the Sri Rama Navami competition to be celebrated later this month.

The ‘Nutrition package’ would comprise a number of objects, together with ghee and protein combine powder, in line with an official launch.

Meanwhile, State Municipal Administration Minister Okay T Rama Rao and different Ministers, who attended the ladies’s day celebrations at Thorrur in Mahabubabad district, launched distribution of Rs 750 crore of interest-free loans to ladies Self-Help Groups.

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