Health workers of private hospitals in Dimapur attend a re-orientation training on Integrated Health Information portal held at at Chief Medical Officer’s Conference Hall, Dimapur on February 28. (Photo Courtesy: Dimapur DPHM)
Private Hospitals in Dimapur re-oriented on IDSP-IHIP
Dimapur, March 3 (MExN): As most citizens prefer to avail health services from the private hospitals, data sharing by private hospitals is crucial in disease surveillance and disease outbreak prevention, Dr Kavito Zhimomi, District Surveillance Officer & District Programme Officer (DPO), Dimapur has maintained.
The support, co-operation and data received from the private hospitals especially during COVID pandemic and dengue surge in the previous years were highly helpful in formulating the District’s Surveillance Plan, he added.
He as addressing a re-orientation training on Integrated Health Information (IHIP) portal for Private Hospitals under Dimapur District held February 28 at Chief Medical Officer’s Conference Hall, Dimapur in collaboration with Jhpiego, USAID, and NISHTHA.
The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme is an instrumental programme in the health sector to monitor 33 identified communicable diseases in the country, he further said.
While the reports were paper-based and submitted weekly, the DPO informed that programme has now shifted to daily online reporting via IHIP Portal for near real time surveillance.
Dr Antara Sharma, Programme Officer, Jhpiego gave a brief presentation of IDSP and IHIP and highlighted that the role of private hospitals is to give real time data.
Such reporting may be tedious and overwhelming at the beginning however the real time data received from all health institutions will initiate timely action and thus prevent outbreak, she said.
She also re-oriented the trainees on IHIP Portal uploading and provided hands-on training for new inductees.
The training was attended by staffs from CIHSR (Referral), Faith Hospital, Nikos Hospital, Good Health Diagnostic & Clinic, Nagaland Multi-Specialty Health & Research Center, Olive Christian Hospital, and Zion Hospital.
Similar re-orientation Training on IDSP-IHIP were for health workers under Public Health Sectors under Dimapur, Chumukedima, and Niuland Districts on February 29.
