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A scheme under the National Health Mission, Assam
From the desk of Dr. Manoj Choudhury Executive Director, National Health Mission
The Sanjeevani Village Health Outreach Programme is implemented by the Government of Assam’s Health and Family Welfare Department. This programme is conducted in cooperation with the existing public health infrastructure in areas of rural Assam in order to ensure better identification and treatment of chronic diseases in the state. The paramedics with the Sanjeevani team will focus on lifestyle and insidious diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, etc. It is conducted with the help of mobile health units (MHUs). Each Mobile Health Unit will have a pre-defined calendar and route plan for delivering the services covering 2 villages & a population of 3000 each day on an average and 48 villages in a monthly cycle of 24 days. Initially, the programme will cover 3800 service delivery points and approximately 56 lakh people in the state.
This unique initiative has been taken up by the State to reach out the healthcare services to rural people of Assam by providing screening of communicable, non-communicable, and lifestyle diseases and laboratory investigation to the remotest corner of the State.
There are different ways in which one can avail of the Sanjeevani Village Health Outreach Programme:
This unique initiative has been taken up by the State to reach out the healthcare services to the rural people of Assam by providing screening of communicable, non-communicable, and lifestyle diseases as well as laboratory investigation to the remotest corner of the State.
Thus, this scheme augments, complements, and supplements the existing public health infrastructure in rural Assam.
