Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 16: A 3-day Capacity Building Training of District Resource Persons and ASHA facilitators on supervisory skills under National Rural Health Mission began today at Regional Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Nagrota.
The said training is part of various skill enhancement initiatives taken under NRHM, J&K and is being held under the supervision of Mission Directorate NRHM, J&K and was inaugurated by Dr BS Pathania, Director Health Services, Jammu.
Under the programme, 60 participants including community health officers, health educators and medical officers are being trained for the on ground execution of Centrally sponsored schemes.
It is the three day training in which different programs under NRHM will be highlighted besides lectures on Maternal Health, Child Health, Adolescent Health, Home Based Newborn Care, Reporting Formats, Supervising tools used for monitoring at field level and related topics would be delivered.
The new schemes launched under NRHM namely RBSK (Rashtriya Bal Suraksha Karyakaram) and incentives for ASHAs under NRHM will also be discussed.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included Dr Harjeet Rai, Divisional Officer, NRHM, Jammu, Dr Zahoor Rana, Principal, RIHFW, Nagrota, Dr Dhruv Ji Raina, Programme Manager, Trainings, NRHM, J&K, Juniaz Zaroo, Associate Programme Manager, NRHM, J&K, Rakesh Sharma and DMIEO.a