Chief Secretary reviews performance of health sector
18/02/2018
JAMMU, Feb 17: Chief Secretary, B B Vyas Saturday chaired the meeting of the Governing Body of State Health Society (J&K), National Health Mission (NHM) to review the status and performance on health outcomes.
Principal Secretary, Health & Medical Education, Dr Pawan Kotwal, Mission Director, NHM, J&K, Director Family Welfare, J&K, Director Health Services, Kashmir, Director Health Services, Jammu, Principal Government Medical College, Srinagar, Principal Government Medical College, Jammu and other senior officers were present in the meeting.
Chief Secretary appreciated the performance of the state in the recently released "Healthy States, Progressive India"Report of the NITI Aayog wherein Jammu and Kashmir has been ranked among the top three States in terms of annual incremental performance showing the maximum gains in improvement of health outcomes such as Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR), full immunization coverage, institutional deliveries, and People Living with HIV (PLHIV) on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART).
He also stressed on working out the possibilities of having a Health Intelligence and Corre-ctional Units tasked with collecting information /intelligence regarding disease incidence and its spread, vulnerability and other aspects. He said Health Department should also look into other States and adopt one among the best models for health care data collection, its coverage and management, so that the high quality, credible and reliable data is available with the health department.
Chief Secretary stressed on adopting Bio-Metric Attendance System across all 24x7 healthcare institutions with directions to the Directors of Health Services to ensure submission of a compliance report in this regard within a month.
He also stressed on further improving the overall sanitation situation and medical waste disposal across all healthcare institutions in the state.
He said among the new initiatives 18 diagnostic services are being provide free of cost in District Hospitals, Community Health Centres, 12 at PHCs and 5 at Sub-Centres (SCs). He said 75 SCs are being up-graded as Health & Wellness Centres in 6 identified districts namely, Udhampur, Doda, Jammu, Pulwama, Kul-gam and Kupwara besides MoHFW, GoI has started Population Based Screening for Common Non Communicable Dise-ases (NCDs) including hypertension, diabetes and cancer in 100 districts of the country including 6 districts from J&K viz Jammu, Udhampur, Doda, Anantnag, Bara-mulla and Kupwara.
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