PGI Community Medicine Deptt. Awarded in Best Practice and Innovation Category in Community Medicine

By Samachar Vishesh News

Chandigarh 19^th Mar, 2019:- Department of Community Medicine, PGIMER, is awarded with Certificate of Merit in the Best Practice and Innovation in Community Medicine in the category of Community Medicine Practice at the 46^th National Conference on Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine in Shimla, for the year 2018-19. Professor Madhu Gupta from the department of Community Medicine, PGIMER, had presented that an intersectoral collaboration between Chandigarh Administration and department of community medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, was established in 2011, to improve maternal and child health indicators in the catchment area of Civil Hospital, Chandigarh, and to train the community medicine resident doctors. MCH program implementation was strengthened through supportive supervision of MCH staff, enhanced community engagement through inter personal communication, husband’s counseling for family planning, tracking of high-risk pregnant women, identification of problem families and problem solving with cascade model, and efficient referral system in collaboration with MCH staff of Civil Hospital.This innovative model of intersectoral collaboration between Chandigarh Administration and department of community medicine was successful in significantly improving the maternal and child health indicators in the catchment area.