India would celebrate national deworming day on February 10. This is one of the largest public health programs in the country conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare since February 2015.
As per official data, more than 836 million children are at risk of parasitic worm infections worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 241 million children between the ages of 1 and 14 years are at risk of parasitic intestinal worms in India, also known as Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH).
