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Time of India
3 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Stress on menstrual hygiene among girls, hostel students
Trichy: Awareness programmes focusing on menstruating teenage girls and hostel students, were conducted by Trichy corporation's urban primary health centres (UPHCs) on Wednesday, as a part of the World Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Day observed annually on May 28. The local body promoted the availability of cost-free menstrual napkins provided by the state govt through educational institutions and anganwadis. City health officer Vijay Chandran said that the local body conducted events in libraries and anganwadi centres by inviting the targeted age group of girls and women residing nearby the centres. Since prolonged usage of menstrual napkins will cause health issues, women health volunteers and urban health nurses who conducted the sensitization drives urged the girls to change the pads frequently to prevent infections. "Unwanted fears of irregular menstruation among teenage girls who recently started menstruating were discussed by our health workers. The cycle and menstrual flow will differ for every individual woman. Young girls were advised to change their menstrual pads frequently since govt is providing free sanitary napkins," Chandran said. He added that wardens in govt hostels and anganwadi workers can be approached to obtain the napkins manufactured by women self-help groups (SHGs). Corporation said that circulars will be issued to hostels and educational institutions to ensure the working conditions of incinerators in toilets, to dispose of the used napkins. "In houses, residents can hand over the used sanitary napkins separately to the sanitary workers. They should not mix with other domestic waste," the officer added.
The Hindu
21-05-2025
- Climate
- The Hindu
Tiruchi Corporation steps up vector control measures
Against the backdrop of summer showers, Tiruchi Corporation has stepped up its monitoring of any outbreak of vector-borne diseases. According to a source, the city has been registering a slight increase in fever cases and there are no active dengue cases. However, complaints of cold, cough and wheezing have been reported due to sudden climate change. Special fever camps are being conducted at the 18 Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs) every day. Despite the fact that residents have received a much-needed respite from the scorching heat, stagnation of rainwater on potential dengue-breeding objects has become a cause for concern. To eliminate the potential outbreak of dengue, domestic breeding checkers (DBCs) and sanitary workers have been instructed to intensify their dengue prevention drive after the city received heavy rainfall in the last few weeks. According to M. Vijay Chandran, City Health Officer, the workers have been carrying out the anti-dengue drive regularly and with the recent rainfall, the drive has been intensified. 'So far, no dengue fever cases have been reported in the city. We have stepped up surveillance measures and have to monitor for the next two weeks. Additionally, chlorination of water and monitoring the chlorine level is undertaken by officials,' he said. A team of 50 DBCs in each zone has been formed to identify and eliminate dengue sources in all zones. Anti-mosquito fogging is being carried out in all 65 wards using portable machines available in all wards and high-power fogging trucks in all five zones. They are also engaged in spraying insecticides on open storm-water drains and drainage channels. The workers have been instructed to cover closely packed residential streets and water stagnation-prone areas to check for potential mosquito breeding sources. Anti-dengue drive would be undertaken at all government schools and anganwadi centres before the reopening, the official added.
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Krishna district leads in PHC, UPHC performance rankings
1 2 Vijayawada: The combined Krishna district topped all 13 erstwhile districts in Andhra Pradesh in providing health and medical care services to the general public through primary healthcare centres (PHCs) and urban primary healthcare centres (UPHCs). It was followed by Vizianagaram and Prakasam districts, while Anantapur district stood a distant last. The three remaining districts in the Rayalaseema region—Kurnool, Kadapa, and Chittoor, also remained at the bottom of the PHC and UPHC performance rankings. These rankings were announced during a review meeting chaired by health minister Y Satya Kumar Yadav with DMHOs and DCHSs at his chamber in the secretariat at Velagapudi on Tuesday. The rankings were based on an internal assessment conducted by the health department. Besides expressing concern over the poor performance in rendering healthcare services at PHCs and UPHCs in the Rayalaseema districts, Satya Kumar also highlighted the negligible performance of secondary hospitals in the region. He noted that three out of seven districts with low surgery rates at secondary hospitals belonged to Rayalaseema. The three districts with lowest surgery rates at secondary hospitals were Anantapur (10%), Kurnool (10%) and Tirupati (24%). by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning For Working Professionals. BITS Pilani WILP Apply Now Undo Meanwhile, with 42% surgery rates, Chittoor district performed comparatively better than the remaining districts in the region. In addition, the health minister pointed out that secondary hospitals in the Rayalaseema region also lagged in the utilisation of healthcare services under the Dr NTR Vaidya Seva Trust Scheme. Only three percent of surgeries were performed under the scheme, while the highest combined average of surgeries done under the free treatment scheme at secondary hospitals in the Rayalaseema districts stood at approximately 25%. He further noted that the number of maternal deliveries performed at secondary hospitals in the Rayalaseema districts remained low. Against this backdrop, Satya Kumar directed the concerned officials to initiate appropriate measures to increase the maternal birth rate and the number of surgeries performed under the Vaidya Seva Scheme at secondary hospitals in the Rayalaseema districts. Furthermore, the health minister flagged several irregularities by DMHOs in discharging their duties and raised serious concerns over allegations that health department offices were becoming centres of corruption. In this regard, Satya Kumar proposed the transfer of second-rung officials working in DMHO offices to curb irregularities in the health and medical departments. He further proposed a graded review performance system for DMHOs, to be conducted twice a year.
Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Health
- Hindustan Times
Ludhiana: Health centres short of midwives; overburdened, say employees
The local health department is facing a severe shortage of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), forcing those on duty to cater to twice or thrice the number of people an ANM is supposed to cater as per the rules, say staff members. According to an assement by the local health officials in 2017-2018, after the National Health Mission (NHM) in 2014 prescribed that there must be a ANM against every 10,000 people, it was found that the city has roughly a population of 18-20 lakh and as such would require 196 ANMs. However, at the moment, there are only around 60 ANMs in the various urban primary health centres (UPHCs) in the district. The Giaspura UPHC caters to around one lakh people but no ANM is available there at present. The situation is similar at the Salem Tabri UCHC that caters to 45,000 people. The UPHCs in Dhandari (catering to 60,000 people) and Model Town (having a population of 31,000) have just one ANM each. The data shows that the ANM staff are short by 70%. A health official, seeking anonymity, said it was important to have enough ANMs in the peripheral urban areas that were populated mostly by labour class migratory population as they required to be educated in how to ensure prenatal health, identify symptoms of complications and antenatal care. While urban areas clocked fewer maternal mortality cases last year, the numbers in the preceding year were more. If the data from last year was taken out, the maternal mortality cases in urban areas appear to be increasing. In 2021-22, there were 18 maternal deaths in urban areas, which rose to 28 by 2023-24. Last year, the urban areas recorded only 20 deaths. The local health department had written to the higher-ups in 2018 to sanction more posts to ensure the required ANM strength. On different occasions, ANMs were sent to the district but at present most of the posts remain vacant. The health official further said that multiple letters were written to higher officials regarding the ANM shortage, but to no avail. When contacted, Ludhiana civil surgeon Dr Ramandeep Kaur said, 'I took up this issue at the civil surgeons' conference today. I was told that a few ANMs have been recruited. A rationalising process will be taken up and they will be deployed as per the demand.'
Hans India
28-04-2025
- Health
- Hans India
Facial attendance system for med. staff from May 1
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is set to introduce Aadhaar based facial attendance system for the medical staff including the personnel in PHCs, UPHCs, Basti Dawakhanas and medical colleges in the State from May 1. The medical and health department personnel who do not follow the discipline will have to face loss of pay. The government has mandated that the staff from the Primary Health Centres, Urban Primary Health Centres and Basti Dawakhanas should be in the duty from 9 am to 4 pm. The doctors and teaching doctors who do not follow the time discipline will have to face pay cuts. Director of Public Health B Ravinder Nayak said that there are 638 PHCs, 248 UPHCs and 468 Basti Davakhanas in the State. The aim of the government is to provide better treatment to the poor and middle class sections. The doctors should come to the hospitals in time and register the facial based biometric attendance. The para-medical staff and other personnel should also be in their duties on time. They should be available on time for giving services to provide better treatment, said Dr Ravinder Nayak, adding salaries will be decided based on the attendance. The decision comes after the National Medical Council (NMC) directed the government to implement the app based facial attendance in hospitals and medical colleges. Recently, the Health Minister C Damodar Raja Narsimha had visited the Gandhi Hospital and was unhappy with many doctors not seen in the hospital. He had asked the superintendent to issue show cause notice to the doctors who were absent. The Minister wanted the officials to ensure a system in place to check the attendance of the staff. The doctors would have to enrol their name, institution name, district name and Aadhaar details in the mobile application. There would be regular monitoring of the attendance with surprise inspections. There are 34 government medical colleges and 28 private medical colleges in the State and the rule would be for all. Besides facial recognition, there would be geo tagging to check the moments of the doctors and faculty in the institutions, the officials said.
