In wake of unplanned urbanisation and increase of population the training and capacity building of urban health facilities has become an important aspect of modern planning, said the Vice Chancellor (VC) of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Medical education University, Professor Saudan Singh while addressing inaugural session of a two day workshop, ‘Internal Assessors Training on Quality Standard for Urban Primary Health Facilities’ at Government Doon Medical College here on Tuesday.
He said that only 10 percent population lived in urban centres in the census of 1901 while the census of 2011 revealed that 30 percent of the population resides in urban centres and according to an estimate 40 per cent of the population would live in urban areas by the year 2030. The VC said that the objective of the workshop is that the faculty members after getting training are able to inspect Urban Primary Health Centres.
The Advisor National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi, Dr J N Srivastava said that GDMC is the first medical college in the Country where NHSRC is organizing such workshop. He said that the aim of the workshop is to narrow down the gap between knowledge and its implementation aspect. Dr Srivastava hoped that the participants would become champions of quality after attending the workshop.
The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Pradip Bharati Gupta said that nascent college is proud to organize the workshop of NHSRC. Welcoming the guests, speakers and participants, Dr Gupta said that participants would be greatly benefited by the workshop.
On the first day Dr Srivastava delivered a lecture on area of concern- Clinical services. The Dean Academic of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh, Dr Surekha Kishore made a presentation on ‘ Role of medical Colleges as assessors of Health facilities to improve the quality of services’. Dr Nikhil Prakash and Dr Deepika Sharma of NHSRC also delivered their lectures on the first day of the workshop.
The associate Professor and Head of department of Community Medicine Dr M K Pant, Dr Desh Dipak, Dr Sona Kaushal Gupram, Dr S K Agarwal, Dr Chitra Joshi, Dr Rangeel Raina and other members of the faculty were present on the occasion.