Health officials in Arunachal urged to improve health scenario

Arunachal Pradesh Health & Family Welfare Minister Jomde Kena urged all the health officials to strive hard for improvement of the health scenario in the state.
Addressing the state-level review meeting of National Health Mission (NHM) here yesterday, the minister assured to look into rational posting of human resources for achieving the health target, an official communique informed here today.
Kena also stressed to ensure the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) provisions, antenatal check-up, immunization, adolescent health and community processes.
He called for close coordination among the officers and staff for better implementation of the programs.

Encouraging all the districts representatives for better performance in maternal, child health and family planning status, Special Secretary (H&FW) Prince Dhawan directed them to make concrete action plan with timelines and work on it seriously.
"There should be no compromise with NHM schemes and its activities and implementation," he said and advised the district medical officers and District Reproductive and Child Health Officers (DRCHOs) to work in close coordination to achieve the target set by NHM and requested the districts to come out with solutions to their problems.

He remarked that ASHA workers should be trained for better community mobilization as well as for tracking pregnant mother and infants for antenatal check-up and immunization.

Director of Health services, Dr M Jini exhorted the district representatives for improving overall performance not only under NHM but also health of the state.
NHM Mission Director Dr D Padung and NHM nodal officer Dr M Lego also spoke on the occasion, the communique added.