For guarding people against diseases and enquiring about their health, contact has been established with 94 lakh houses in the State from March 16 to 31 under door-to-door Health Dialogue Campaign. Campaign’s regular e-review will also be undertaken to wean out lacunae and achieve better results.
Health Dialogue Campaign will be undertaken for two weeks every two months. Next campaign will be held in May. During the campaign in second fortnight of March, health workers contacted 94 lakh families and advised them about ways to prevent diseases. This target was achieved in excess of target of contacting 75 lakh families during March.
Principal Secretary Health Praveer Krishna informed that action will be taken against negligent officers. Directives have been sent to districts about activities to be undertaken for campaign in May. Campaign’s activities will also come up for discussions at weekly e-review meetings at ANM level. Monitoring of various health services has become smooth due to e-review at Principal Secretary level during last three years.
It is noteworthy that it has also been decided to confer Rs2 lakh cash award, trophy and certificate to Principal Secretary Health and his team for year 2013-14 for using information technology in innovative schemes under e-governance and ‘neonatal care and database facility’.