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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Health Minister KK Shailaja donned the role of a magician at the ‘Mittayi’ programme of the Kerala Social Security Mission here on Tuesday. Inaugurating the programme, the minister said that ‘Mittayi’ programme will be extended to all districts. At present, we have Mittayi centres at Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Thrissur and Kozhikode medical colleges. Other than that, Mittayi centres are to come up in the district hospitals at Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta Malappuram, Wayanad and Kasaragod as well as the Palakkad Women and Children’s Hospital. Mittayi is a modern treatment, dietary advice and experience programme for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes..