Tag: State Health Department

State setting up viral hepatitis treatment centres in districts

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The State Health Department has taken up a project to set up dedicated viral hepatitis treatment centres at 15 government-run hospitals, including some medical college hospitals, across the State, with the aim of helping patients detect the disease early through proper screening.

This is a significant project as millions of people in the country suffer from hepatitis but it can be cured through early screening and proper treatment.

All these dedicated viral hepatitis treatment centres will have facilities for screening a large number of patients through various tests. In Kolkata, the centre will come up at the School of Tropical Medicine.

The project will be completed in phases, with the maximum number of treatment centres planned to be set up by the end of the current financial year.

This effort by the State Government is in consonance with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) aim of eliminating hepatitis from the world by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015.

Viral hepatitis has been recognised as a serious public health problem in India by the WHO, with 40 million people chronically infected with hepatitis B and 6 to 12 million people chronically infected with hepatitis C.

It needs to be mentioned here that West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), or Madhyamik Board, has decided to make students aware about hepatitis elimination, for which purpose the curriculum of the class VIII syllabus has been modified.

Source: Millennium Post

State Govt’s earnest efforts result in spur in organ transplants

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Thanks to the constant awareness campaigns being run by the State Health Department, Bangla has seen an unprecedented spur in organ transplants. The campaigns are run at both the government-run and private.

According to a senior official of the department, as many as 14 different cases of organ transplants have taken place in the State since July 2018. The transplants have taken place at both State-run and private institutions.

Organ transplants that have occurred here are essentially cadaver transplants. Organs were retrieved from patients who were declared brain dead by the competent authorities, transported to other hospitals and then transplanted on to patients in need.

The whole process is done through a register maintained by the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO), which holds names of potential receivers who urgently require organs.

It may be mentioned that transplant of an organ is heavily dependent on the initiative of the individuals rather than a comprehensive system. Hence, the campaigns of the Health Department are crucial.

Department officials are hopeful that the number of transplants in the State will go up in the future. The awareness campaigns have been intensified and a concrete roadmap is being created. The department will also tie up with non-governmental organisations (NGO) to carry out the campaign in a more effective manner.

Source: Millennium Post