Union Health Minister reviews preparedness on Dengue
Union Health Minister reviews
preparedness on Dengue
“Pragmatic data collection system should be developed”
“Pragmatic data collection system should be developed”
Union Minister for
Health and Family Welfare, Shri J P Nadda has directed the officials of the
Health Ministry to develop a mechanism to address the patients’ detail at the
central level, which will help to remove the discrepancies in data of dengue
cases and other related information. He said as the data currently generated by
the national programme and the state government are highly variable, there is a
need for a pragmatic system to collect accurate data. Data quality also needs
to be monitored and assessed periodically, he stressed. The Minister stated
this in the high level meeting chaired by him yesterday to review the Dengue
situation and the measures taken to address it.
The Minister emphasized that there should be no laxity in the ongoing activities being undertaken. There should be availability of designated beds for dengue, blood products including platelets and no refusal of admission. Lessons learnt should be incorporated in adopting measures to tackle the situation. Day to day monitoring should be continued, he said. He urged the Delhi Government to engage Residential Welfare Associations (RWAs) and volunteers to spread awareness about the Dengue situation.
The Health Ministry is constantly and closely reviewing and monitoring the situation with the State Government, Municipal Bodies, NDMC, Delhi Cantonment Board, CPWD, MS of Central Government hospitals in Delhi and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), the nodal agency for prevention and control of dengue.
It may be recalled that preparatory activities for creating awareness and preventing Dengue had started since the beginning of February this year.In addition, the states were supported to prepare for preventing and treating Dengue cases by organizing meetings, sensitization workshops, meeting with public representatives including Mayors, Corporators at the level of the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Union Health Secretary, and the Director General of Health Services.
The Ministry has also undertaken intensive targeted multi-media IEC activities to create mass awareness among the communities for prevention and control of Dengue.
Also present at the meeting were, Dr. Jagdish Prasad, DGHS, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Secretary (DHR) and DG, ICMR, Shri K B Agarwal, Additional Secretary, senior officers of the Health Ministry, officials of the National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), officials of the central government hospitals in Delhi, officials of the Delhi Government and Municipal Corporations of Delhi.
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Health Ministry organizes Voluntary
Blood Donation Camp
Shri B P Sharma,
Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) inaugurated the Voluntary Blood Donation
Camp organized by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at Nirman Bhawan, here
today. The Health Secretary also met a group of thalassemic children who were
present at the camp. Total 310 units of blood were collected till 3 pm at the
Blood Donation Camp today. The camp was organized to help the thalassemic
children and patients suffering from Dengue.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare aims to collect blood for providing hospitals without replacement. However, this is not possible till the voluntary blood donors come forward to donate blood. During summer and especially the dengue season there is a huge scarcity of blood. In India 39,000 units of blood are required every day. As against the requirement of 130 lakh units of blood, the present collection provides only 90 lakh units.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare aims to collect blood for providing hospitals without replacement. However, this is not possible till the voluntary blood donors come forward to donate blood. During summer and especially the dengue season there is a huge scarcity of blood. In India 39,000 units of blood are required every day. As against the requirement of 130 lakh units of blood, the present collection provides only 90 lakh units.
Several officers and staff of the Ministries located at Nirman Bhawan took part in the Blood Camp organised by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Also present on this occasion were Dr. Jagdish Prasad, DGHS, Shri C K Mishra, AS&MD (NHM), Shri Arun Kumar Panda, Additional Secretary (Health), Shri Navreet Singh Kang, AS&DG (CGHS/NACO), Shri K B Agrawal, AS (Food and Drugs), Shri Ali R. Rizvi, JS, Shri Manoj Jhalani, JS and other senior officers of the Health Ministry.
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