The Haryana Government has expanded the scope of health services for the children in Haryana by implementing the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK). Initially, the programme was launched in July in three districts — Ambala, Karnal and Panchkula. Now, the programme has been extended to the entire state. Health Minister Narender Singh today said a similar programme by the name of Indira Bal Swasthya Yojna (IBSY) was being run in the state since 2010. It would now be renamed to the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram and would be implemented in Haryana on the guidelines of the RBSK. The RBSK is a child health screening and early intervention services programme to provide comprehensive care, including free of cost treatment (surgical and medical) to all children from birth to 18 years of age registered in the anganwadi centres, government and government-aided schools for birth defects, diseases, deficiencies and developmental delays, including disability. He said mobile teams, each comprising male and female doctors of Ayush, one pharmacist and one ANM were functional to screen the children in aganwadi centres and schools. They cover the children in the age groups of six-week to six-year and six to 18 years. The programme also provided the facility-based newborn screening at public health centres by existing health functionaries. Also, it aims at providing community-based newborn screening at home through Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for newborns up to six weeks of age during home visits. He said identified children were referred to the government health facilities. He said since inception of the programme in 2013-14, as many as 190 children were given financial aid of Rs 2.3 crore for treatment of various health problems in the approved government institutes of the PGIMS, Rohtak, and the PGIMER, Chandigarh, GMCH, Sector 32, Chandigarh, and AIIMS, New Delhi.