In the health ranking dashboard of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi has once again secured the first position in the state by securing an 80 per cent score. The district has come first for the sixth consecutive time in the health ranking dashboard. District Magistrate (DM) S Rajalingam and Chief Development Officer (CDO) Himanshu Nagpal praised the Health department for this achievement and encouraged them to provide quality services in future.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Sandeep Chaudhary said that recently the ranking of all the districts has been displayed in the state's health ranking dashboard (September), in which Varanasi is at the first place. “By working as per the guidelines given by the DM, Varanasi has secured first position in the state for the sixth consecutive time. The health facilities being provided in the district are being supervised by the CDO, as a result of which Varanasi's achievement so far in this financial year is 79 per cent, while the achievement in the month of September is 84 per cent,” the CMO informed.
Dr Chaudhary further said that the state’s achievement for the month of September is 66 per cent and for the financial year is 58 per cent. “If seen in this way, the situation of Varanasi is much better than the achievement of the state,” he said, adding that according to the monthly dashboard, there is 99.64 per cent coverage in institutional deliveries, 100 per cent coverage in antenatal testing (hemoglobin) during pregnancy, home based newborn care, complete vaccination of children, TB notification, during pregnancy.
“Varanasi was commended for performing better on 16 indicators including 100 per cent HIV testing, payment of ASHA workers, temporary means of family planning (Antara, Chhaya, Copper-T, PPIUCD and IUCD), cesarean delivery relative to deliveries at CHCs etc,” the CMO said and congratulated the health workers of all the urban and rural level primary and community health centres (PHCs/CHCs) and Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) of the district and encouraged them to maintain the quality of services.
According to him, quality medical and health services of maternal-child health and family welfare programmes are being provided in all the government hospitals, CHCs, PHCs. HWCs and sub-centres of the district. For this, the team has performed well under the collaborative supervision of ACMO (RCH) Dr HC Maurya and District Programme Manager (DPM) of National Health Mission (NHM) Santosh Kumar Singh. ASHA workers and ANMs have an important role in improving the indicators. ASHA workers mobilise beneficiaries from the community and bring them to the medical units. This ranking of Varanasi is an honour to the frontline workers, he said.
He asked all the health workers that the quality of activities related to maternal health, child health, newborn health and nutrition should be maintained. “The department is making continuous efforts to provide medical and health benefits to the last person of the community. This is the aim of the government and the department,” he said, adding that the achievement should continue. For this, all programme nodal officers, block programme managers, block community process managers, data operators, ANMs and other health workers have been directed to visit the regular blocks as well as VHSND, vaccination sessions, Antraal (intervals) and Khushaal Parivar (happy family) days etc apart from taking people’s feedback about the facilities and ensuring to improve the same. He also directed the health workers to take 100 per cent data of all indicators on time.
