DIMAPUR The department of Health and Family Welfare (DHFW) has been reeling from shortage of technical employees, while there are excess third and fourth grade employees covering about 65%, said Y Kikheto Sema, Commissioner and Secretary, DHFW on Thursday. Sema said the Health department has the third highest employees in the state but the non-technical employees cover about 65% and technical employees only about 35%. ‘We have more of third and fourth grade (employees), which is not required much in a department like Health and Family Welfare”, he said, adding that the manpower rationalisation committee is in place and they will be making a statement and bring to the notice of the government necessary action that need to be taken. He said this during his visit to Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR), and Nagaland Police COVID hospital, Chümoukedima to check the preparations for COVID-19. Medical Superintendent of CIHSR, Dr. Clement Momin said the hospital
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Our Correspondent Kohima, Nov. 24 (EMN): Minister of Health and Family Welfare, S Pangnyu Phom, stated that the government of Nagaland is committed to address the inequities that exist in the state especially in the health sector. He stated this while addressing the Nagaland Health Project (NHP) (a World Bank aided project) culmination programme at Capital Cultural Centre on Thursday in Kohima. Stating that NHP is the first state-level project funded by World Bank and implemented by the department of Health and Family Welfare, Phom asserted that the project, with its focus on selected sites, had covered district hospitals, community health centres, primary health centres, sub-centres and its catchment villages. The first project component, the minister informed, was focused on community result-based financing (RBF) where health intervention by health committees aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes at the community level based on the Nagaland communitisation concept.
Dimapur, Nov. 8 (EMN): Nagaland Medical Students’ Association (NMSA) has expressed shock and dismay over the recent notification of the Nagaland Health and Welfare department relating to special recruitment drive for the post of 96 medical officers, 41 junior specialist, 21 Ayush doctors and five dental surgeons and appealed to the authority concerned to immediately review its decision and issue fresh order in accordance with NPSC rules to give equal and fair opportunity to all the budding doctors NMSA, in an update, stated that the medical student fraternity was highly perturbed by the policy changes in alignment with the regularised medical officer recruitment process. The association stated that it was dismayed by the “unjust criteria” set by the department of Health and Family Welfare for the special recruitment drive, rewarding special preferences and incentives to the officers/ staff serving on contract/ engagement basis under NHM, NSACS, NHAK and the state, who have served
Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): Nagaland Health Project (NHP) conducted a National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) knowledge exchange programme at Mongsenyimti public health centre (PHC) in Mokokchung district on September 16. An update from the office of the chief medical officer (CMO), Mokokchung, informed that participants from Wokha, Longleng, Zunheboto, Tuensang and Mokokchung districts attended the exchange programme. It mentioned that PHC Mongsenyimti was awarded NQAS certification under PHC category in the month of July 2022. The CMO of Mokokchung, Dr. Limatula Aier, delivered the opening remarks, while the deputy director of Health department, Dr. Thomas Keppen, spoke on “Introduction to knowledge exchange on NQAS.” It stated that Dr. Keppen enlightened the participants on the definition of quality and why it is needed in a health centre. Speaking on the purpose of organising the knowledge exchange programme, he informed that NHP envisioned creating opportunities for gross lear