ALAPPUZHA: The state government is all set to start radio production units in government medical colleges and schools to disseminate information and health tips on public health issues.
The programme will be executed by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) through its 'radio health project' with the help of the departments of education and the local self governments, and the state's IT Mission.
Various programmes on topics ranging from personal hygiene to lifestyle diseases will be aired on the radio. NRHM-trained students, teachers and selected parents will record these programmes.
They will be provided recording devices, computers and mikes.
The recorded programmes will be sent through email or courier to the studio in the NRHM directorate for the final production.
And these programmes anchored by the students themselves will be broadcast on all 9 FM and AM stations of the All India Radio.
The first unit will be set up in Government Medical College, Kozhikode.
School health clubs will produce radio programmes on health issues on a regular basis. In the first phase, radio units will be set up in five schools in Thiruvananthapuram.
NRHM state mission director M Beena said the 'radio health project', launched in 2008, was one of its unique ventures in Kerala.
"Its objective is to spread the messages of the NRHM, especially among the youth and women, through FM radio to promote health literacy. The 'radio health project' is being independently produced and broadcast through All India Radio since 2008. However, it's from this year that we decided to set up radio programme production units in schools and government medical colleges. We will make students the agents of change and disseminators of information. We will sensitize them on health issues and train them in media production. The central government has approved our project and allocated funds for it," Beena said.
The IT Mission will monitor the content produced by the students through dedicated websites or through the websites of the NRHM and the grama panchayats concerned.
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