The Health & Family Welfare Department of Assam is one of the vital departments under the Govt. of Assam and it is located at the Assam Secretariat Block-D, Dispur, Guwahati. For administrative convenience, the Health and Family Welfare Department of Assam has been categorized into two divisions - Health-A and Health-B. All hospitals and health institutions apart from the Medical and Nursing Colleges come under Health-A. Whereas all Medical Colleges and Nursing Colleges are under Health-B.
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Information on National Deworming Day (NDD), Assam
The objective of National Deworming Day (NDD) is to deworm all preschool and school-age children between the ages of 1-19 years through the platform of schools and anganwadi centers in order to improve their overall health, nutritional status, access to education and quality of life.
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Information on National Iron Plus Initiative (NIPI), Assam
This programme is for school going boys and girls (5-10 years) and out of school girls (5-10 years) in urban and rural areas. The programme implemented through the platform of Government/Government aided/ municipal schools and AWCs.
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Information on Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre, Assam
The Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres are facility based care units where severely acute malnourished (SAM) children below five years are admitted with their mothers/ care givers for treatment, stabilization and rehabilitation.
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Information on National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), Assam
Under this programme, support is provided for strengthening of the health infrastructure and engagement of Human Resources in identified health facilities. To enhance community participation in health, a community health volunteer ASHA is promoted and a community based unit, named as Mahila Arogya Samiti (MAS) are formed in between 50-100 households.
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Information on Mission Smile, Assam
Mission smile is looking at bringing the cost per surgery down to Rs.17,500 form Rs 20000/- per surgery, which includes screening, travelling expense of the patient, their accommodation and fooding, camp cost, OT cost, travel expense of the Medical team of the NGO within India, their accommodation and fooding.
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Information on PPP with Charitable Hospital, Assam
The Charitable Hospitals are also instrumental in providing health care services to large number of urban poor population. NHM, Assam has signed MoU with the Private hospital/ trust hospitals for improvement of maternal and child health within in district specially in municipal wards, outreach areas and BPL families.
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Information on PPP with Tea Garden Hospitals, Assam
The tea community is one of the marginalised and socially excluded groups in Assam. They remain unserved in terms of basic health care facilities adding to high diseases burden and mortality rate.
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Information on Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme, Assam
The Hemo-Dialysis Centres under Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme has been implemented in Assam in Public Private Partnership mode.
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Information on Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), Assam
The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) has been introduced to provide fixed day quality antenatal care services to women in their 2nd/3rd trimesters of pregnancy on the 9th day of every month. The initiative aims to ensure that assured and comprehensive antenatal services are provided to pregnant women at designated health facilities by Obstetricians/ medical officers.
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Information on Kayakalp, Assam
Kayakalp is to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection Control Practices in Public Health Care Facilities. To recognize such HI that shows exemplary performance in Adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control.
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Information on Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), Assam
Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) is an important initiative aiming at early identification and early intervention for children from birth to 18 years to cover 4 'D's viz. Defects at birth, Deficiencies, Diseases, Development delays including disability.
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Information on Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), Assam
Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) defines an adolescent as a person within 10-19 years of age, in urban and rural areas, includes both girls and boys, married and unmarried, poor and affluent, whether they are in school or out of school.
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Information on Sanjeevani - Village Health Outreach Programme, Assam
This unique initiative has taken up by the State to reach out the healthcare services to rural people of Assam by providing screening of communicable, non-communicable and life style diseases and laboratory investigation to the remotest corner of the State.
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Information on Snehasparsh, Assam
Snehasparsha - a Health Care Initiative for Children whereby financial assistance shall be provided for specialized treatment of children below 14 years of age afflicted with some serious ailments.
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Information on Susrusha - Financial Assistance For Kidney Transplantation, Assam
Under "Susrusha" scheme, an amount of Rs. 1.00 Lakh is given as financial assistance to people who have undergone Kidney transplantation after 1st April 2010.