As part of improving healthcare system in the State, the Directorate of Public Health has taken one more addition to its system of administration.
The staff at Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) units were provided with tablets to keep track of patients.
Deputy Director of Health Services (Vellore), K.S.T. Suresh, while handing over the tablets to the staff at his office on Saturday, said that tablets were loaded with an app ‘National Program for Prevention and Control of Cancer, diabetes, cardio vascular diseases and stroke (NPCDCS)’. The tablets will be of immense help for the patients who take treatment at rural or urban public health centres.
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He asked the staff to use the app to provide data on the patients at their centres. Patients can approach any PHC, GH, or MCH for further treatment using any of the personal information they had provided at the time of his first visit to the health centre, Dr. Suresh said.
The NCD staff should enter details of the patients, such as name, place, mobile number, health insurance card number, Aadhaar number and the treatment he or she had at a particular health centre. This would help the Government in segregating statistics on particular region and particular disease, Dr. Suresh said. As part of the initiative, 134 tablets were distributed to the staff at NCD centre, Government Hospital, Public Health Centre, who were given training to include datas pertaining to his health centre.
These datas would be stored in a central server at the Chennai National Health Mission centre. The NCD cell at the district will ensure implementation and supervision of the programme activities related to health promotion, early diagnosis, treatment and referral, and further facilitates partnership with laboratories for early diagnosis including the monitoring of the National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly. The online data entry and reporting system would minimise the stress on the staff in maintaining the records manually.
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