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The Jipmer Rural Health Centre (JRHC) astatine Ramanathapuram, nether the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (P&SM), has received the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) certification.
A property enactment said the JRHC was the archetypal Health and Wellness Centre (HWC) successful the Union Territory of Puducherry to person NQAS certification, marking a important measurement successful strengthening prime superior wellness attraction transportation successful the region.
The JRHC secured a people of 91.05% during the rigorous national-level outer appraisal nether the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) framework, developed by the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) nether the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The NQAS, a national-level accreditation strategy that evaluates the prime of nationalist wellness facilities crossed India, assessesed show crossed 8 captious domains — work provision, diligent rights, inputs, enactment services, objective care, corruption control, prime management, and outcomes. Facilities gathering these standards are certified for their quality to present safe, effective, and patient-friendly healthcare.
According to Jipmer, an NQAS-certified instauration is authorised to show the NQAS logo, becomes a benchmark for prime superior care, and besides stands to person fiscal incentives to prolong and heighten prime betterment initiatives.
The Jipmer Urban Health Centre (JUHC), Kurussukuppam, excessively excelled successful its State-level assessments and would acquisition the forthcoming national-level evaluation.
Vir Singh Negi, Jipmer Director, commended the section and said the agrarian and municipality wellness centres embody Jipmer’s integrated attack to community-based wellness services and training.
The certification accomplishment is besides attributed to a collaborative and multidisciplinary attack that progressive outreach programmes and telemedicine contributions from assorted Jipmer departments, specified arsenic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Pulmonology, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, and Emergency Medicine.
According to the property note, the agrarian wellness centre successful Ramanathapuram, is simply a 24X7 installation catering to implicit 11,200 residents crossed 4 villages — Ramanathapuram, Thondamanatham, Thuthipet, and Pillayarkuppam, portion the municipality wellness centre successful Kurusukuppam, serves a colonisation of astir 9,000.
Both centres run arsenic Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres, delivering a broad bundle of superior wellness attraction services. In summation to regular outpatient and exigency care, antenatal, child, and immunisation clinics, they connection specialised services, specified arsenic high-risk pregnancy, NCD, adolescent, geriatric, intelligence health, dental, ophthalmology, and baccy cessation clinics.
Over the years, the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine has pioneered champion practices, specified arsenic the Family Health Advisory Programme, Family Folder System for assemblage wellness records, WHO Geriatric Care and Teleophthalmology projects. Moreover, respective exemplary outreach initiatives person strengthened some agrarian and municipality superior wellness systems, Jipmer said.
