Hyderabad, Mar 4 (TNT): The Telangana Government has decided to prepare health profiles of women belonging to Self-Help Groups across Telangana, covering around 46 lakh beneficiaries in a phased manner over six months.
Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha on Wednesday directed officials to launch the programme on March 8, coinciding with International Women’s Day.
The initiative will be implemented with the support of Telangana Diagnostics, under which each woman will undergo 30 types of medical tests.
Reviewing the Health Department’s action plan under the Praja Palana–Pragati programme at the Secretariat, the Minister instructed officials to ensure that routine medical services in hospitals remain unaffected during the 99-day drive scheduled from March 6 to June 12. The plan was approved with minor modifications.
The programme will be implemented in four phases.
Phase I (March 6–31): Focus will be on maternal and child health, adolescent girls and elderly care. Administrative measures such as improving hospital sanitation, clearing pending files and asset verification will be taken up.
Field-level activities will include anaemia control and health screenings for children in schools and anganwadis.
The health profiling of Self-Help Group women will commence on March 8, initially in five mandals per district, followed by 10 mandals in the second stage and the remaining mandals in the final stage.
Phase II (April 1–15): Special screening camps will be organised at sub-centre level to detect non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and cancer.
The Minister directed mapping of chemotherapy services at district day-care cancer centres and made viral infection testing mandatory for dialysis patients.
Phase III (April 16–May 15): The focus will shift to communicable disease control and public health preparedness.
Officials were instructed to intensify TB detection in line with the TB-Mukt Bharat goal and create awareness on seasonal diseases such as heatstroke, dengue and malaria, ensuring availability of essential medicines.
Phase IV (May 16–June 12):Urban health services will be strengthened. As many as 145 Urban PHCs in GHMC, Cyberabad and Medchal limits will be upgraded into polyclinics to provide speciality services. Mobile medical camps will be conducted in slum areas, and food safety melas will be organised to raise awareness against food adulteration.
Senior officials, including heads of various health wings, attended the review meeting.
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