Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Nov 21: A meeting of all medical officers of the district was addressed by the District Civil Surgeon Dr RN Jha and ACSC Dr Sahir Paul in which all health indicators were broadly discussed. It was decided that all health targets would be attained by December for which Dr Jha and Dr Paul gave necessary directives.
The directives given to the medical officwers present pertained to programmes related to vaccination and inoculation, maternal health, AYUSH, RBSK, blindness, tuberculosis, leprosy, PM Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan, Sahaiya Prothsahan Rashi and family welfare. In addition, a special COVID-19 test drive would be conducted from next week till November 30. Each Block was given a fixed testing target. From Monday, November 23, a fortnight camp would be held at the Sadar Hospital and at all Block levels for family planning drive in the form of male vasectomy.
Others present in the meeting included Dr BN Usha, Dr AK Lal, Vinay Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Subodh Kumar, Hakim Pradhan and others.