CS stresses on capacity building of mothers

Design comprehensive communication strategies for capacity building of the mothers and the community, this was said by Chief Secretary Gokul Chandra Pati while attending the valedictory ceremony of a State-level workshop on ‘leadership in Strategic Communication’ organised here on Friday. Pati said there is lack of awareness and appropriate knowledge about health, nutrition, sanitation, pregnancy and other common ailments at community level. With increasing awareness and knowledge, many of the public health concerns and diseases can be substantially mitigated, he added.

The Chief Secretary directed the Health and Family Welfare Department to prepare integrated awareness building messages on health, nutrition and sanitation and adopt multi-pronged approaches for capacity building of the PRI representatives, NGOs, NSS volunteers, mothers and other health service providers at grassroots level.

National Health Mission Odisha Director Roopa Mishra also spoke in the five-day long workshop. Internationally acclaimed resource persons like Dr Benjamin V lozare and Uttara Bharat Kumar imparted training on designing of communication strategies. Among others, Textiles and Handloom Secretary Chitra Arumugam, SIH and FW Director Dr Bijaya Mohapatra, DFID Odisha team leader Supriya Patnaik, experts from the Unicef, subject experts from SIH and FW along with senior 

officers from the Government departments participated the workshop.