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OVERVIEW community, the Trusts are implementing health Communicable Diseases: The focus here is on preventing
interventions under four themes, with a need to the spread of communicable diseases through various
The biggest barrier to healthcare planning and delivery is create timely access to primary care and improve initiatives. For example, the Malaria-Free Odisha
a lack of real-time data on healthcare needs, disease quality of care in project areas. These include: programme ensures community empowerment to fight
burden and its spread, poor governance, and monitoring Malaria with resources and awareness, while grants given
of existing facilities, especially in Primary Health Centres Health Systems Strengthening: It involves collaborating to academic organisations ensure research and advocacy
(PHCs) and Community Health Centres (CHCs). Training with central and various state governments, providing to combat diseases, such as Tuberculosis and AIDS.
and capacity building at government health facilities is technical and technological support for capacity building
limited only to select health programmes. Interpersonal among a public health workforce, improved utilisation of
communication skills, administrative skills, monitoring and health facilities, and data driven decision making through
supervision, and soft skills are largely absent in the health technical support units. Interventions are currently
system and this lacuna directly a ects service delivery to ongoing in Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh,
the community. The sub-optimal provision of healthcare and Chhattisgarh.
services at primary and secondary care centres further
burdens tertiary care centres, resulting in patient Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs): To prioritise early
dissatisfaction and inflated out-of-pocket expenditures for detection of non-communicable diseases across large
poor patients. That a significant gap exists in healthcare populations, the Trusts partnered with the Government
human resources in terms of availability, distribution, of India to provide technical support for a pan-India
capacities, and medical infrastructure, is widely known. NCD screening initiative. NCD technical support units
provide expertise at the national level for policy making,
The Trusts are endeavouring to issue guidelines, as well as
address these challenges by helping support over 25 state
build a healthy nation where governments in capacity
quality, a ordable, and building for sta and the
patient-centric healthcare is adoption of technology for
accessible to all Indians. The e cient NCD screenings.
focus remains on improving The Trusts are also
access to, and quality implementing community-
of primary healthcare, by based screening initiatives
addressing the underlying with the help of Mobile
challenges in human resources, Medical Units (MMUs) and
infrastructure, technology adoption, have adopted telemedicine as
etc. These levers will assist in better an approach in Uttar Pradesh and
planning and delivery of healthcare in a Andhra Pradesh. Mental health
cost- e ective manner. A considerable initiatives under this theme are being
change management e ort, aimed at implemented for face-lifting
technology adoption and better management practices government-run mental hospitals and undertaking
among care providers, is crucial for the success of these district-level screening for mental health issues in the
initiatives. Considering the need for supporting public Nagpur region of Maharashtra.
health systems and minimising disease burden in the

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