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Updated: Feb 24, 2024 09:20 IST

New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare SP Singh Baghel on Friday inaugurated the primary National Public Health India Conference (NPHICON-2024) within the nationwide capital right here.
The three-day convention is being organized from February 23 to 25 by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) below the Directorate General of Health Services. NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul was additionally current on the event.
Speaking on the event, the Minister highlighted the importance of the convention in advancing public well being discourse and in formulating insurance policies aligned with the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient for Viksit Bharat. The minister recommended NCDC for its management and dedication in organising this pivotal occasion that may contribute to the event of resilient well being insurance policies and interventions.
He mentioned many consultants, docs, and so on., are collaborating on this three-day National Public Health India Conference organized by the NCDC. All the consultants will talk about what analysis is being completed within the well being sector.
The Minister mentioned that a very powerful scheme of the Government of India is the Ayushman Bharat Scheme. Earlier, essentially the most mentioned illnesses have been ones like Kala-azar, Japanese fever, and dengue. But below the management of the Prime Minister, as a result of building of 4 crore bathrooms in rural areas, the variety of sufferers affected by illnesses like Kala-azar has decreased.

Water is reaching folks’s properties via faucets. Smokeless gasoline cylinders have been given to 12 crore folks. Four crore ‘pucca’ (brick) homes have been constructed. So now folks don’t sleep within the open outdoors the home. Electricity provide has been made obtainable 24 hours a day in order that even a poor individual can eliminate mosquitoes and flies by working a fan. Due to all these schemes, the illnesses, together with Kala-azar, that have been prevalent earlier in rural areas have been decreased, he added.
Dr Atul Goel, DGHS, National Center for Disease Control, mentioned many infectious illnesses are additionally being mentioned at this convention. “There are many infectious diseases in the country on which we are focused. But there are some of these diseases on which our country is working very fast and we are moving forward to eliminate them. These include diseases like Kala-Azar, TB, rabies, and malaria.”
He mentioned that packages are additionally being run by the Health Ministry relating to the elimination of Kala-azar. Apart from this, the agricultural housing scheme additionally has an vital contribution to this. Because sandflies have been discovered principally in ‘kutcha’ (mud) homes and have been an vital reason for this illness. But the development of pucca homes has offered aid from this downside. But no illness is totally eradicated. Cases begin reducing, transmission stops, and the variety of sufferers affected by illnesses like Kala-azar (black fever) has additionally decreased to a terrific extent; one affected person in a single lakh folks is affected by this illness.
Dr Roderico H Ofrin, WHO Representative to India, additionally participated on this convention. He mentioned that the National Public Health India Conference, organized by the NCDC, has introduced collectively numerous consultants, researchers, college students, and practitioners who’re coming to share their finest practices, their papers, and their analysis. Presentations can be given by all of the contributors on totally different subjects for 3 days.
During the event, a revamped NCDC web site, a brand new e-journal of NCDC, Epi-Dis-Phere Public Health Resilience and an e-techno-doc comprising oral and poster abstracts of displays to be completed at NCDC have been additionally launched. (ANI)