HT Bureau

GUWAHATI, March 5: The National Health Mission (NHM), Assam’s review cum orientation workshop, ‘Swasthya Manthan – 6’ was formally held on Saturday at Assam Water Centre in Guwahati.

The 1-day review cum workshop was held with participants from all the districts and a district wise review was held on the health performance of each district, and discussions were held on how to improve the health of children and mothers. The record of proceeding conditionalities for Financial Year 2022-23 were also reviewed district wise. It is expected to determine any further course correction that may be required by the districts and any handholding required to improve the health indicators.

In the review meet, the best performers from the state, district and development partners were also felicitated by Dr M S Lakshmi Priya along with state officials for their hard work and dedication towards improving the health system in their respective districts.

It is worth mentioning here that as per reported figures, Assam has shown improvement in the Health Indicators as the number of maternal death cases in 2022-23 (May – February) is reported to be 448 against 680 number of deaths in 2021-22 (May – February), showing a decline of 232 deaths (34.1%).

Similarly, the number of child death cases in 2022-23 (May – February) is reported as 5,805 against 6,721 number of deaths in 2021-22 (May – February) showing a decline of 916 deaths (13.6%). It may be noted that Swasthya Manthan – 1 was held on June 8, 2022; Swasthya Manthan- 2 was held on August 2, 2022; Swasthya Manthan – 3 was held on September 27, 2022; Swasthya Manthan – 4 was held on October 31, 2022, and Swasthya Manthan – 5 was held on December 28, 2022 under the initiative of Dr M S Lakshmi Priya.

Dr Nilmadhab Das, director of health services, Kamaljit Talukdar, ACS, director of health services – family welfare, Dr M S Lakshmi Priya, Mission Director – NHM, Assam, Dr Manoj Kumar Choudhury, ED, NHM Assam, state programme officials and district programme officials, NHM Assam were present in the meeting.