The third quarter district review meeting was held in the conference hall of the chief medical officer’s (CMO) office, Mokokchung on Saturday.
In a press release from DPMU Mokokchung, CMO Dr. R. Chubala Aier urged the participants to continue to be vigilant since COVID cases were slowly increasing. Speaking on the “focus” of the third review meeting, she stated that bio-medical waste management & infection control to be the topic of discussion.
With regard to vaccination, she informed of the overdue in second dose and that there was a lot of work to be done. She therefore, called for support on door to door vaccination campaign and instructed all the medical officers to monitor and supervise the health centres from time to time so that they could identify the gaps, problems and difficulties.
Since the government was focusing in health infrastructure, she said it was the responsibility of healthcare workers to work together with stakeholders.
Meanwhile, NVBDCP & DSO, Mokokchung programme officer, Dr. Tiasunep presented an overview of COVID-19 in the district.
While presenting a statistical data, he informed that there were 77 testing sites, the rate of daily and weekly positivity as per the reports collected in the second quarter 2021 and data on percentage of death as per gender, age and comorbidity.
MO, RBSK (Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram) Mokokchung, Dr. Imsongienla presented on screening process/mechanism of RBSK and activities undertaken, covering Anganwadi centre and government school in the month of September and October.
MO, Mongsenyimti PHC, Dr. Maongkala highlighted the gap analysis and action planning and re-oriented the participants on the process and activities involved in conducting gap analysis. She also made a presentation on Root cause analysis, and action planning and its methodology.
Earlier, NUHM Consultant, Sentirenla Longchar gave a PowerPoint presentation on SWOT analysis. She made a brief introduction to SWOT as a tool to identify strength, weakness, opportunities and threats by strategic use of data and information gained from situation analysis of internal and external environments while psychiatric nurse, DMHP IMDH, Akumjungla presented an overview of activities undertaken.
All the SMOs & Mos presented a PowerPoint presentation on bio-medical waste management and infection control, its challenges and suggestions.
The meeting was attended by all programme officers, senior medial officers, medical officers, staff of DPMU, NHP, RBSK and IEC.