Scheme being carried out in collaboration with Lions Club International and Max Hospital MCD school children being tested for anaemia NEW DELHI: By extending its anaemia control programme to Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run schools in Shahdara (South) Zone recently, the civic body is aiming to cover more school children under the ambitious venture. According to MCD Medical Relief and Public Health Committee chairman Dr. V. K. Monga, 80,000 tests have been done on students so far and 88 per cent of them have been found to be suffering from anaemia. To be carried out in collaboration with Lions Club International and Max Hospital, the programme entails coverage of about 50,000 school students up to Class V. While the civic body will provide doctors, medicines and lab testing facilities would be provided by the collaborating partners. Under the programme, children diagnosed with anaemia will be given iron tablets to increase their haemoglobin levels to normal. MCD Medical Relief and Public Health Committee Deputy Chairman Savita Gupta said: