SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 11: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today took a meeting of the National Health Mission (NHM) to appraise the progress achieved under different programs run under this mission.
Besides the Secretary of Health and Medical Education and MD, NHM, the meeting was attended by Director SKIMS; Principles of Medical Colleges; Director, of Health Services, Jammu/Kashmir, and other concerned officers.
During the meeting, the Chief Secretary was impressed to make primary healthcare more robust and comprehensive as there are around 4000 such facilities in the UT.
He asked to verify the modalities and whether the increased number of services, free drugs, and diagnostic tests are available in these Sub-Centres and Primary Health Centres across J&K. He asked to submit a report shortly to him in this regard.
Dulloo also enquired about the status of the screening of the population for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as set under the program. He called for pacing up this process to meet the targets.
While taking note of the tele-services made available to the population he asked to create necessary awareness among the masses besides checking the quality of such services extended to the beneficiaries. He also directed for having a critical analysis of the services offered and the kind of beneficiaries availing them.
The Chief Secretary further observed that the DNB seats offered in different institutions should be optimally utilized and in no case should these be left vacant. He asked for measures to stop the practice of leaving these courses halfway through the admitted candidates.
Moreover, he noted the progress made in the generation of ABHA IDs of the population here and its desired utilization. He inquired about the status of the tendering of 102/108 ambulance services and the training of ASHA workers for the provisioning of quality health services at the grassroots level.
Secretary H&ME, Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah informed the meeting about the status of different projects taken up under this mission and those in the pipeline. He also threw light on the monitoring mechanism in place to ensure the smooth implementation of the mission here in the UT.
While giving detailed performance made under this Mission, the MD NHM, Nazim Zia Khan informed the meeting that several health indicators had taken a quantum leap with the initiation of this mission here.
Besides the budget part, the meeting discussed the progress made in programs like Maternal Health, Child Health, RBSK, Anemia Mukht Bharat, Prevention & Control of NCDs, JK e-SAHAJ, National Dialysis program, Tele-MANAS, Tele-Radiology among others implemented under the umbrella of NHM.
