District Health Action Plan - STATE HEALTH SOCIETY-----BIHAR

VHSND: Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day:
In every AWC, with the joint coordination of AWC, HSC, PHED & PRI make an
arrangement of Nutrition cum Health Checkup camp to provide basic Health, Sanitation &
Nutrition services (Preventive & Promotive ) at the doorstep under one roof towards
achieving NRHM Goals as mentioned below:
a) Reduce MMR Rate
b) Reduce IMR Rate
c) Reduce Malnutrition
d) Reduce VBDS
Key Features Of The Programme
- Joint programme of Health Department, Social Welfare Department ( ICDS),
Public Health and Engineering Department ( PHED), Panchayati Raj and Department
and Education Department and their role in program planning, implementation and
evaluation.
- The District Magistrate as The Apex Authority and District Immunization Officer
(Health department) as The Nodal Officer of the programme.
- Arrangement of providing services of three departments ( Health Department, Social
Welfare Department ( ICDS), Public Health and Engineering Department ( PHED) at
every ICDS centre.
- Community mobilization by ASHA, Anganwadi Worker and Sahayika
- Services by health workers Community level awareness generation and dissemination
of health preventive and promoting services. Focused group discussions with
stakeholders, viz: community, pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls
and eligible couples.
Counseling with calendar of thematic issues and services accordingly.
- Arrangement of resources ( human, logistics and vaccines) by all the departments
- From community to state level system of monitoring the programme
- Arrangement of orientation facility for ANM, AWW and ASHA
- Provision of carrying out IEC activities, likes, Nukkad Natak, display of posters, dugdugi,
etc
Heath Service Providers in VHSND Day in Saran District
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