To feed the data of all the permanent and temporary services relating to family planning programme on the state-level Health Management Information System (HMIS) among the from 21st to 25th of each month has been made mandatory for the private hospitals so that all the datas could be uploaded.
Aiming at consolidating the urban family welfare programme under National Health Mission, a meeting was held at the auditorium in the office of the CMO on Tuesday in which the Dy CMO ( RCH) Dr HC Maurya and District Programme Manager (DPM) Santosh Kumar Singh said to the representatives of the private hospitals that to feed the data of all the permanent and temporary services relating to family planning programme on the state-level Health Management Information System (HMIS) from 21st to 25th of each month has been made mandatory for the private hospitals so that all the datas could be uploaded.
The meeting emphasised on the coordination and enhancing capacity with all the medical units and service providers of the private sector. The meeting also laid emphasis on seeking consent of the beneficiaries before providing service to them.
Maurya and Singh said that the hospitals of the private sectors can play an important role in attaching the middle class families to the family planning programme and added that if the private hospitals make cent per cent reporting and data feeding of the beneficiaries taking the service of family planning on the HMIS portal on time, the qualitative services could be provided to the beneficiaries and there would also be an improvement in the ranking of the district in this direction.
They said to the representatives to give spaces in their hospitals to display the posters of family planning and for IEC and consultancy of it and make records for the reporting and services. The hospital employees should make the people aware of various health services on urban health cleanliness and nutrition day once in a month and also train the people for the high quality of facilities.
Subra Dwivedi and Kriti Pathak of PSI gave some suggestions to assess the actual status of family planning services and make the index of the district better.
They also detailed the qualitative improvement in the family planning programme in the private sector and the new HMIS portal through the presentation.
The meeting was held with the cooperation of The Challenge Initiative ‘Population Services International (PSI). The ACMOs Dr Nikunj Kumar & Rajesh Prasad, DHEIO Harivansh Yadav and others were present in the meeting.