{"id":20801,"date":"2024-06-20T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:02:23","slug":"almost-20000-nursery-school-children-screened-under-comprehensive-child-and-youth-health-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/almost-20000-nursery-school-children-screened-under-comprehensive-child-and-youth-health-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 20,000 Nursery School Children Screened Under Comprehensive Child and Youth Health Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Delicia Janneire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Comprehensive Child and Youth Health Programme (CYHP), initiated in August 2023, has made substantial strides toward its objective of screening at least 27,000 nursery school children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony provided an update, revealing that nearly 20,000 children have been screened so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CYHP aims to identify and address various health issues early on, ensuring better overall health outcomes for Guyana&#8217;s youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony noted that about 2,000 of the screened children were found to have various health issues, ranging from vision and hearing impairments to dental problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school health programme includes oral health, hearing, and vision screenings for children and adolescents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony emphasized the importance of parental cooperation for the success of the programme, as follow-up treatments often require parents to bring their children to health centers or hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure the programme&#8217;s sustainability, funds have been allocated in the 2024 Budget to provide free treatment for any health issues identified during screenings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CYHP is a collaborative effort between the Ministries of Health and Education, with development support from Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Delicia Janneire The Comprehensive Child and Youth Health Programme (CYHP), initiated in August 2023, has made substantial strides toward its objective of screening at least 27,000 nursery school children.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}