UT gets three awards for following best healthcare practices

The UT health department bagged three awards for following best practices and innovations in public healthcare at a national summit held in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.

The UT health department bagged three awards for following best practices and innovations in public healthcare at a national summit held in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.

A release issued here on Monday said that the national summit was organised by the union ministry, in which senior officers from the health ministry, National Rural Health Mission and representatives of World Health Organisation were also present.

While the top prize in population stabilisation was awarded to Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh bagged three prizes for improving indoor patient care, outdoor patient care and reduction in infant mortality rate/ early neo-natal mortality rate. The strategies adopted by the UT health department in reducing IMR were appreciated, it said.

It added that the infant mortality rate in India is 44, but Chandigarh stands at second place in the country among various UTs and small states having achieved Infant Mortality Rate 20/1000 live births as per the report of Sample Registration System (SRS), 2011.

The infant mortality rate has reduced from 29 as per 2008 SRS to 20 as per SRS 2011. Strong immunisation strategies have been adopted for children, the release said adding that Chandigarh was the only UT/state in India, where immunisation services are provided three days a week as compared to two days a week in other states.

Regular outreach sessions are held to cover high risk population at construction sites/ rag pickers/ unlisted slum areas. Chandigarh achieved the immunisation rate of 92.47%, it said. WHO monitors confirmed that the list of beneficiaries, who are due to get immunisation, was available with every field worker. Special slum interventions have been undertaken in Chandigarh, it further added.