BHUBANESWAR: After a gap of few months, the state government has resumed training programme for the city-based hospital and nursing home employees to facilitate online dissemination of information on births and deaths at their institutions to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).The training programme started at the Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC) here recently. The BMC has asked each and every hospital and nursing home to send at least one employee for the training programme on online furnishing of data.
Currently, almost all the hospitals are abiding by the conventional way of sending hard copies of death and birth information to the city health office (CHO) of BMC, which is time consuming. To do away with this, the state housing and urban development department last year announced to introduce online furnishing of information to ensure that the hospital authorities send the birth and death details to the CHO through internet.
The government also identified 44 other urban local bodies (ULB) in Orissa where hospital staff would undergo the computer training in the first phase. Subsequently training programmes were organised at OCAC in January where some hospital staff from Bhubaneswar and other ULBs took part. But the training was stopped due to some technical problem, sources said.
There are nearly 120 hospitals and nursing homes exist in the state capital. While nearly 36 healthcare centers, including government-run Capital Hospital and Municipal Corporation Hospital (MCH) and a handful of private nursing homes underwent training earlier this year, the rest are yet to be covered. "To ensure that all the hospitals adopt the online dissemination system, we decided to start the training again. The hospital authorities have been asked to follow the scheme seriously," city health officer Dr. Chandrika Prasad Das said. He said only eight or ten hospitals are sending online information to CHO on birth and deaths at their hospitals.
As reported in: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Info-course-for-health-staff/articleshow/9769376.cms