Purba Bardhaman Zilla Parishad

CHCMI (Community Health Care Management Initiative)

4th Saturday Meeting at GP

• Meeting on local public health issued is held at Gram Panchayats on 4th Saturday of each month led by the Prodhan of the concerned Gram Panchayat and in presence of Sanchalak of Swasthya-O-Siksha Upasamiti and other Panchayat members, Health Supervisors, Anganwadi Supervisors, all ANMs, Part-time Doctors, Secretary or Executive Assistant of the GP and 5 representatives from SHGs.
• A report in prescribed format (Parisishta-I) is prepared at GP level, compilation of GP data is done at Block level and sent to District every month.

Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC) :

• Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC) is formed as Citizen Task Force for improvement of public health indicators in local area.
• Formation : Chairman- Panchayat Member, Secretary- ANM of the local Sub-centre, Convener- ASHA (AWW, if ASHA is not present) and other members- 2nd highest vote getter in last Panchayat Election , Anganwadi workers, CSPs of Anandadhara project, VRPs of Social Audit, teacher attached to Village child protection committee, 2 women members selected by Chairman and 5 members from SHGs.

Training on CHCMI / VBDC :

• Training of Block functionaries on VBDC along with CHCMI (Community Health Care Management Initiative) at District level held at Zilla Parishad.
• Training of GP functionaries on VBDC/ CHCMI completed at all the 23 Blocks.

ZP/GP level dispensaries

• 4 Zilla Parishad Charitable Allopathic dispensaries are presently functioning.
• 64 Homeopathic GP level dispensaries with 61 Homoeopathic Medical Officers & 35 Compounder-cum-Dressers are functioning under State Govt. budget and 10 GP level Ayurvedic dispensaries are functioning with @1 Ayurvedic Medical Officer each GP.
• 32 Homoepathic Medical Officers and 3 Ayurvedic Medical Officers are working in 35 GP level dispensaries under National Health Mission.

VBDC (Vector Borne Disease Control) Programme

• House to house Survey is done all over the district by Social Audit Village Resource Persons for 20 days in a month.
• Vector control works like container management, garbage pile management, blocked drain management, low land with stagnant water management, tyre repairing/recycling facory management, unsafe construction site management, mosquito larvae management at canal/ ditch/ cesspool are done by the SAVRPs/ volunteers.
• Both Survey and vector control activities are monitored by a Supervisor from Social Audit Deptt. at Gram Panchayats.
• Bio-Larvicides for destroy the mosquito larvae is procured and supplied by the Health Deptt .
• Release of guppy fishes is started in the detected water bodies.
• VHSNCs act as Citizen Task Force for Dengue prevention at Gram Samsads.