Every Tuesday will be celebrated as NCD-Day by Kandi Health Block

GNSONLINE RAJOURI
SHYAM SOOD

RAJOURI, OCTOBER 25:—Kandi Health Block in Rajouri district under the supervision of Dr. Iqbal Malik, Block Medical Officer (BMO) has decided to celebrate every Tuesday as Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD)-Day.
Today, despite the ensuing harvesting season, the health teams at every health center conducted screening camps and the field teams also visited the villages/hamlets under Kandi Health Block.
India is experiencing a rapid health transition with a rising burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) surpassing the burden of Communicable diseases like waterborne or vectorborne diseases, TB, HIV, etc.
Non-Communicable Diseases like cardiovascular diseases; Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Diabetes, etc. are estimated to account for around 60% of all deaths.
In order to prevent and control major NCDs, the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) was launched in 2010 with focus on strengthening infrastructure, human resource development, health promotion, early diagnosis, management, and referral.
Under NPCDCS, NCD Cells are being established at national, state and district levels for program management, and NCD clinics are being set up at district and CHC levels, to provide services for early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up for common NCDs.
Provision has been made under the program to provide free diagnostic facilities and drugs for patients attending the NCD clinics.
The timely detection, diagnosis & treatment lead to a reduction in morbidity & mortality arising from common NCDs.
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GoI has taken an initiative to prepare & disseminate guidelines for mass screening for Hypertension, Diabetes, & Common Cancer of the people & the health workers at the field level will find the screening very useful and early detection of common NCDs will get a fillip.
The 1st step in the process is the active enumeration of the population and registration of families through individual health cards placed within a family health folder.
A process of enumeration of eligible couples, women, and children in need of maternal, newborn and child health services already exists.
The such listing will be expanded to include all members over 30 years. The initial enumeration would also list existing health issues/diseases/disabilities and exposure to risk factors among individuals to estimate disease/risk burden; which can be utilized to prioritize health interventions.
The manual records of the population enumeration will be converted into an electronic database.
The families & individual members would be allocated a unique health ID & individual ID should be the Unique Identification (UID), Aadhar & for the family, the family code used in the National Population Register (NPR) or the SECC may be used.
The health card issued to each family member would be used to document health events (screening/diseases/treatment/complications etc.) & would also help in the generation of population-based statistics.
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