Daily Times

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that the Sindh Health Department in collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network is going to launch a comprehensive programme to monitor the performance of lady health visitors and vaccinators.

Talking to a delegation of the Agha Khan University (AKU) here in his office on Tuesday, the minister said that the performance would be evaluated through smartphones in routine immunisation programme and it would help to track staff location.

Health Secretary Ahmed Bux Narejo, Director General Hasan Murad Shah,Dr Shehla Zaidi and Saleem Sayani also attended the meeting. The minister was informed that the system was already operational in district Tando Muhammad Khan and was working successfully.

In the first phase, the monitoring and evaluation system for the lady health visitors and vaccinators would be launched in those districts where the performance is not satisfactory.Through smartphones not only the movements of the staff will be checked but the photos of every vaccine will be sent to the monitoring room which will be established in the Minister’sOffice or the office of the Health Secretary as required.

He said that LHVs and vaccinators would be provided fuel and other financial support based on their performance.He said that non-performing staff would also be suspended while monthly mobile package would be given to them as well.He said that the individual monitoring system would enhance efficacy of routine immunisation programme.

The Health Department has given posting to 139 women medical officers who were promoted from Grade 17 to Grade 18 and were waiting for their postings. Mehtab said that he hopes they would work hard and serve the patients in a better way because the department has solved doctor’s long-standing issues