Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta on Saturday asked the health professionals to screen the whole population of the Union Territory for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) like Hypertension, Diabetes and common types of cancers.
Dr Mehta was chairing a review meeting of the performance of National Health Mission (NHM).
Besides the Secretary, Health the meeting was attended by the Principals of Government Medical Colleges, Director Health Jammu/Kashmir and other concerned officers of the Department, an official spokesman said.
The Chief Secretary maintained that the NCD was a major cause of deaths across the globe so their early diagnosis could lead to better prevention and cure of such diseases.
He asked for organizing camps all across J&K for conducting free of cost screening of people here.
Dr Mehta also observed that there is still scope for improvement in institutional births despite it being ahead of the national average. He also emphasised on further improving the ranking of the UT in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related to health.
The Chief Secretary asked the department to digitize all the health records of the patients so that it is accessible to them anywhere by using their ABHA numbers. He also advised them to add their previous records to it for saving the same for posterity.
Dr Mehta enquired from the officers about the defunct machinery and poorly managed infrastructure in the hospitals of the UT, the spokesman said.
He made out that the Department should make a plan to repair all of such machines and upgrade the infrastructure to put it to optimal use for the benefit of the general public.
The CS asked for the mechanism of screening the children of J&K by the Department. He directed them to visit the far-off schools and Anganwadi Centres for screening of children enrolled there.
He directed the concerned to extend every support to children requiring any kind of medical assistance and popularize the same so that people come forward readily to screen their children at their early age.
Dr Mehta also stressed on assessing all the health facilities of the UT right from the Sub-Centres on a set of parameters.
He told them to repeat the exercise periodically and put the results in public domain so that people are able to see for themselves about the status of these health facilities besides giving them opportunity to make improvements.
He also asked for creating awareness among people about the initiatives like e-Sanjeevani, e-sahaj and Tele-MANAS so that people are able to seek assistance, guidance, counseling and support through such IT and telecommunication tools from the comforts of their homes.
While providing the insights into the working of NHM here, the Secretary Health, Bhupinder Kumar informed the meeting that all adults aged ≥ 30 years have been enrolled into NCD portal.
He added that the risk assessment Community Based Assessment Checklist (CBAC) has been completed for 46 Lakh people and 37 Lakh screened for Diabites, Hypertension and three common cancers namely oral, cervical and breast Cancers.
Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta on Saturday asked the health professionals to screen the whole population of the Union Territory for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) like Hypertension, Diabetes and common types of cancers.
Dr Mehta was chairing a review meeting of the performance of National Health Mission (NHM).
Besides the Secretary, Health the meeting was attended by the Principals of Government Medical Colleges, Director Health Jammu/Kashmir and other concerned officers of the Department, an official spokesman said.
The Chief Secretary maintained that the NCD was a major cause of deaths across the globe so their early diagnosis could lead to better prevention and cure of such diseases.
He asked for organizing camps all across J&K for conducting free of cost screening of people here.
Dr Mehta also observed that there is still scope for improvement in institutional births despite it being ahead of the national average. He also emphasised on further improving the ranking of the UT in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related to health.
The Chief Secretary asked the department to digitize all the health records of the patients so that it is accessible to them anywhere by using their ABHA numbers. He also advised them to add their previous records to it for saving the same for posterity.
Dr Mehta enquired from the officers about the defunct machinery and poorly managed infrastructure in the hospitals of the UT, the spokesman said.
He made out that the Department should make a plan to repair all of such machines and upgrade the infrastructure to put it to optimal use for the benefit of the general public.
The CS asked for the mechanism of screening the children of J&K by the Department. He directed them to visit the far-off schools and Anganwadi Centres for screening of children enrolled there.
He directed the concerned to extend every support to children requiring any kind of medical assistance and popularize the same so that people come forward readily to screen their children at their early age.
Dr Mehta also stressed on assessing all the health facilities of the UT right from the Sub-Centres on a set of parameters.
He told them to repeat the exercise periodically and put the results in public domain so that people are able to see for themselves about the status of these health facilities besides giving them opportunity to make improvements.
He also asked for creating awareness among people about the initiatives like e-Sanjeevani, e-sahaj and Tele-MANAS so that people are able to seek assistance, guidance, counseling and support through such IT and telecommunication tools from the comforts of their homes.
While providing the insights into the working of NHM here, the Secretary Health, Bhupinder Kumar informed the meeting that all adults aged ≥ 30 years have been enrolled into NCD portal.
He added that the risk assessment Community Based Assessment Checklist (CBAC) has been completed for 46 Lakh people and 37 Lakh screened for Diabites, Hypertension and three common cancers namely oral, cervical and breast Cancers.
