A review meeting of various programs under National Health Mission, Jharkhand under the chairmanship of Aradhana Patnaik, Joint Secretary, (JS Policy,) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India was held here on Tuesday.

Patnaik said that the health index of IMR, MMR, NMR, U5MR has to be brought at par with the National Health Index by working as per the target from time to time. There are a lot of sickle cell patients in the state, but sickle cell screening is decreasing. Once the POC kit arrived, instructions were given to work quickly. Up to 20 lakh sickle cell patients have to be screened.

Till now 3104 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs are functioning in the state. The remaining Ayushman Arogya Mandir is to be made operational very soon. Also, instructions were given to change the name of the Health and Wellness Center to Ayushman Arogya Mandir. C.H.O. It is to be ensured that the training work is done by recruiting as soon as possible. Instructions were given to connect Teleman with teleconsultation.

All programs have separate portals. By making this portal, instructions were given to update the work of health programs on the portal. A.N.M. And C.H.O. should upload the data on the online portal. Despite all the resources being available, uploading of data is necessary. In ABDM, all human resources, whether patients or doctors, are to be made online so that patients can be verified online from anywhere. She instructed to speed up the work of making Abha ID card so that better health benefits can be provided to the patients.

There are separate IEC for 12 types of tests to be conducted in Ayushman Arogya Mandir. Instructions were given to make it.

The Quality Cell was directed to ensure that all health centers are ENQUAS verified by 2026. CHO, ANM He has a lot of workload and work should be done to make his work easier.

Instructions were given to speed up the work of human resources and land infrastructure. The work of the tender process has to be done at a fast pace so that the patients do not face any kind of inconvenience.

During the tour, Patnaik visited Kalamati and Saparum Ayushman Bharat Arogya Mandir in Khunti district. He also instructed to keep all the necessary medicines in Ayushman Bharat Arogya Mandir. She instructed to update the online entry portals of patients. She asked to pay attention to health, yoga and healthy diet. She asked to ensure all the 12 packages of health services in Ayushman Bharat Arogya Mandir.

On this occasion, Alok Trivedi, Campaign Director, National Health Mission, Jharkhand, Dr. Virendra Prasad Singh, Director Principal, Health Services, Manoj Kumar, Director Finance, National Health Mission, Jharkhand, Lakshmi Narayan Kishore, Administrative Officer, National Health Mission, Jharkhand was accompanied by Director, Deputy Director and cell in-charges, counsellors/coordinators and other officers of all cells/programmes were present.