eINDIA 2015 – Dr Ayyaj Fakirbhai Tamboli, Director, National Health Mission, Govt of Chhattisgarh

• 22-12-2015 07:55:42
• e-governance

Chhattisgarh started with mobile-based monitoring of mother and child in 2012. Earlier, it was a Java-based platform in mobile phones. But now, we are shifting towards Android-based tablet system. We have distributed these to 275 ANMs. It has already been implemented in urban areas and now we are implementing it in rural areas as well. We also created an application to make people aware. It is a GIS mapping-based thing, which captures the photograph of a location and its latitude and longitude. It is pushed into the system and based on that all the public health facilities have been mapped. With this map, people can locate the nearest health facility. Another mobile application provides drug availability information in public health facility, generic name of the drug. Thus, the pharmacists know about the status of the drugs available in the warehouse through a transparent ecosystem.

Chhattisgarh started with mobile-based monitoring of mother and child in 2012. Earlier, it was a Java-based platform in mobile phones. But now, we are shifting towards Android-based tablet system. We have distributed these to 275 ANMs. It has already been implemented in urban areas and now we are implementing it in rural areas as well. We also created an application to make people aware. It is a GIS map – ping-based thing, which captures the photograph of a location and its latitude and longitude. It is pushed into the system and based on that all the public health facilities have been mapped. With this map, people can locate the nearest health facility. Another mobile application provides drug availability informa – tion in public health facility, generic name of the drug. Thus, the pharmacists know about the status of the drugs available in the warehouse through a transparent ecosystem.