CRM Report 2016: Things that are Positive

CRM report listed some positives and negatives of the Chandigarh Health System and some positives are given below:

• According to the CRM reports the UT’s listing of severe anaemic women with a good follow-up mechanism.
• Also, Cleanliness is observed at all delivery points.
• SNCU is well maintained at Sector 16 GSMH.
• Good Awareness is given in schools regarding Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme.
• Immunisation services are implemented well in the UT, which has a well-established dengue surveillance system in place, too.
• Currently, four hospitals have been identified in the city as sentinel hospital for dengue testing.
• Chandigarh has achieved the national level programme indicators of 90 per cent total case notification rate and 90 per cent success rate among new TB cases.
• Zoning of health facilities has been implemented under monitoring and Evaluation/Health Management Information System for timely data reporting and monitoring the healthcare delivery services in UT Chandigarh
• Adding that UT reports 100 per cent facility-wise reporting in HMIS and mapping of facilities, too.

CRM Report 2016: Things that are Negative 

There some negatives in CRM reports are given below.

• The report also says that National Free Diagnostics Service Initiative has not been implemented effectively.
• Also, intra-partum care needs to be improved as most of the cases at the inborn SNCU unit are due to sepsis and asphyxia.
• The visiting team has also found that Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) teams are not equipped with the necessary equipment and the UT does not have any HRMIS.
• There is a lack of training to the finance and accounts staff at sub-district level, leading to an inadequate understanding of financial guidelines.

According to the report leprosy cases have been increased in 2016. But all the cases that are detected for Leprosy has been cured. But it is found that all the cases that are detected in Chandigarh for leprosy are not from Chandigarh only but they were from the neighbouring states. According to the data from UT in 2015-16, out of 136 new cases detected, only 22 were from Chandigarh. In the report it also added that dengue is on the decline in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal and Tamil Nadu, it is on the rise in Chandigarh.

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Malaria and Dengue are expected to spread but till now no breeding point has been suspected so that is why the Health department has already started the preparation to tackle the vector-borne diseases in Chandigarh.

Know the Complete Details of vector-borne diseases in Chandigarh

Details of the Mobile App

• It will contain the details of doctors
• Residents can register their complaints here(like water stagnation)

Benefits of the Mobile App

• Residents could contact the doctors easily.
• Complaints could be solved at a faster rate.
• No standing in queues for complaint registration.
• The lesser spread of the disease.
• Residents would be updated to take precautions.

The department has started the process to hold meetings with councilors for creating awareness in their respective wards. They will hold awareness camps in the city schools to educate the students to keep their surroundings clean. The officials are keeping a strict check on the fields and the residential areas that no stagnant water is left as such for a breeding point.

So far, no dengue or malaria has been found positive in the city. The number of chikungunya cases, however, continues to be reported in the city. At the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, 47 people from the city were tested positive for chikungunya. Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, the Chandigarh health department has stepped up its surveillance activities in the city to prevent the possible outbreak of the disease.

Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, The Chandigarh health department is now conscious about the spread of disease in the city and is taking all the possible measures to prevent the outbreak of the disease.

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