PRAYAGRAJ, April 18 -- : All government-run primary, upper primary and secondary schools across Uttar Pradesh will now be required to maintain first aid kits stocked with essential medicines to cater to the immediate healthcare needs of students. In a letter dated April 10, director general of Medical and Health Services, UP, Dr Ratan Pal Singh Suman, directed the director general (school education), Kanchan Verma, to ensure that all such schools have appropriate First Aid arrangements on their premises. These kits are to include a set of specified medicines for emergency use.

The list of essential items includes ORS powder, paracetamol for fever, Ondem for vomiting, Metrogyl syrup for stomach infections, Dicyclomine syrup for abdominal ...