Indian Express,Bhubaneswar
To facilitate better and effective communication between grassroots- level workers and the toplevel decision-makers, Health Department will introduce a close users group (CUG) mobile network system from tomorrow.
With the introduction of the CUG loop service under Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the workers and officials of the Department can now talk free among themselves resulting in quality health-care delivery.
The CUG network will work under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and includes auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) to the Health Secretary covering 18,315 members at a cost of Rs 52.57 lakh.
The new system will help in better and quicker delivery of messages and monitoring activities and would immensely help blocklevel medical officers, additional district medical officers, chief district medical officers, NRHM mission director, directors of health, family welfare and public health and all deputy and assistant directors who would be included in the loop so that all programme implementation process would be expedited across the State.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Prasanna Acharya, in the presence of top Health and BSNL officials, will dedicate the service to the people tomorrow.
It can be recalled here that with better monitoring of activities of health workers and activists through the mobile network the Health administrators of Mayurbhanj district have reduced the incidence of malarial deaths in the recent past.
This new step would also help in controlling infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate as health service delivery would be easier through the free network
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