HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, March 29: Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the official logo of the Swasthya Sewa Utsav at Janata Bhawan on Wednesday.
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The government of Assam has decided to hold the Swasthya Sewa Utsav (SSU) from April 6 to April 8. As envisioned by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the final preparations for holding a Swasthya Sewa Utsav for government health institutions on the lines of Gunotsav, are in full swing by the Department of Health & Family Welfare. SSU was also announced during the budget speech by Ajanta Neog, finance minister of Assam on March 16.
In this regard, Paban Kumar Borthakur, IAS, chief secretary to the government of Assam chaired a VC from Janata Bhawan, Dispur, with all the deputy commissioners of the districts, including the IAS/ACS/IFS officers who will be part of the external evaluation team. The chief secretary instructed all the district administrations to ensure that the SSU be held in a befitting manner. District officials are to be fully involved in this exercise since this is first of its kind in the country, which will set an example for strengthening the health ecosystem.
During the VC, MD NHM Assam also informed all the attendees that the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, government of India is keen to take away the key learning’s from this exercise which has been initiated by the health department of the state.
The Swasthya Sewa Utsav will be conducted in the context of providing quality healthcare services across the state covering 1,252 government health institutions (21 – district hospitals, 16 – sub-divisional civil hospitals, 205 – community health centres and 1,010 – primary health centres). The government health institutions will be assessed on infrastructure, human resources, and service delivery.
The targeted health facilities will undergo internal as well as external assessment. Internal assessment will be conducted by internal evaluators for building facility level capacity for ‘Swasthya Sewa Utsav’. They will communicate the gaps to the in-charge of the health institution and will also help in bridging the same.
The team for external evaluators will comprise of two assessors; one the member of parliament/ member of legislative assembly/ IAS officers/ IPS officers/ ACS officers and the other will be faculties/doctors/post graduate students of medical colleges.
Present on the occasion were Keshab Mahanta, health minister; MS Lakshmi Priya, IAS, mission director, National Health Mission Assam; Kamaljit Talukdar, ACS, director of health services (FW); Manoj Kumar Choudhury, executive director, National Health Mission Assam and state officials of NHM Assam.
