State Health Society discusses SPIP of NHM

Excelsior Correspondent

Secretary Health & Medical Education, Gazzanfer Hussain chairing meeting at Jammu on Sunday.
Secretary Health & Medical Education, Gazzanfer Hussain chairing meeting at Jammu on Sunday.

JAMMU, Jan 11: A meeting of Executive Committee of State Health Society, was held under the chairmanship of Gazzanfer Hussain, Secretary Health & Medical Education to discuss the draft State Programme Implementation Plan (SPIP) of National Health Mission for 2015-16 here today.
Gazzanfer took detailed physical and financial review of various ongoing schemes being executed under National Health Mission and discussed the draft SPIP for the next year.
Dr Yashpal Sharma, Mission Director, NHM, informed that the team of senior officers from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will review the PIP of the State from January 19 to 21, 2015 and the last date for submission of SPIPs by States has been fixed on January 31, 2015.
The Committee reviewed the individual proposals of Govt. Medical Colleges, Directorates of Health/ Family Welfare and various programmes of NHM and approval was granted for their incorporation in the State Programme Implementation Plan of FY 2015-16.
The Secretary called for timely completion of various on-going projects and judiciously use of unspent funds and directed for uniform scale of honorarium for different categories of staff across the entire Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Health Department including Disease Control Programmes.
The meeting was attended by Dr Ghansham Dev, Principal GMC Jammu,   Dr Saleem Ur Rehman, Director Health Services Kashmir, Dr Baljeet Pathania, Director Health Services Jammu,  Dr Baldev Raj Sharma, Director Family Welfare, MCH & Immunization,  Showkat A. Bhat, Director Finance Department,  Dr G N Itoo, Mission Director ICDS,  Dr Kaiser Ahmad, Prof. & HoD Paediatrics, GMC, Srinagar; Controller Drugs & Food Control Organization,  Dr. Shazia Wafi, Regional Director (H&FW),   Satvir Kour, Director (P&S), State Health Society , Zahoor Wani, Director Finance Health & Medical Education Department, Joint Director (Plg) H&ME, Programme Mangers of State Health Society and other senior officer.