HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, June 3: National Health Mission, Assam organised Swasthya Manthan-8, a review cum orientation workshop on 03rd June, 2023 at Assam Water Centre, Guwahati. M S Lakshmi Priya, IAS, mission director – NHM, Assam, Barnali Sharma, ACS, secretary- health & family welfare department, Assam, Nilmadhab Das, director of health services, Ashoke Kumar Roy, director RRC NE, Pankaj Chamuah, ACS, OSD, NHM, Assam, zonal administrative officers, state programme officials and District Health Teams of Assam were present in the meeting.
The one day review cum workshop was held with participants from all the districts. SDM&HO, sectoral medical officers, district programme managers, district quality consultants, district urban health coordinators, hospital administrators, and block programme managers among others were present.
Further a district wise review was held on the health performance of each district specially focusing on quality assurance in public health facilities. In the meeting, facility wise gaps identification and in accordance with that facility wise improvement plan were presented and discussed in detail. 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 M S Lakshmi Priya, IAS, mission director – NHM, Assam for their dedication towards improving the health system in their respective districts.
It may be noted that Swasthya Manthan – 1 was held on 08th June, 2022, Swasthya Manthan- 2 was held on 02nd August, 2022, Swasthya Manthan – 3 was held on 27th September, 2022, Swasthya Manthan – 4 was held on 31st October, 2022 , Swasthya Manthan – 5 was held on 28th December 2022 , Swasthya Manthan – 6 was held on 4th March 2023 and Swasthya Manthan – 7 was held on 26th April 2023 under the initiative of M S Lakshmi Priya, IAS, mission director – National Health Mission Assam.