ITANAGAR, Jun 26:Two day state level workshop on Integrated Action plan for prevention and control of pneumonia and diarrhoea was convened today at Banquet hall. Workshop is being organized by family welfare department with support of UNICEF to provide common platform to health and all the line departments to analysis the data on child pneumonia and diarrhoea of Arunachal and identify the bottlenecks to develop a collaborative district specific action plan.

The IAPPD workshop aims to ensure effective intervention like water, sanitation and hygiene, exclusive breast feeding, appropriate care, lifesaving training, use of vaccine and reducing household air pollution to address the gap and take collaborative effort to prevent and control pneumonia and diarrhea, said Dr Tapasya Raghav special secy, Family welfare while addressing the participants.

Interventions are already in place but we need to strengthen it and sustain it, she added.

Emphasizing the need for strong convergence, she requested the line department WCD, PHE forest, public distribution & civil supply rural development, education to give their full cooperation and coordinate with the health in ending the toll of preventable child deaths due to pneumonia and diarrhoea. She further added the solution to tackling pneumonia and diarrhoea do not require major advance in technology. Simply by promoting exclusive breast feeding by implementing open free defecation in true sense and making potable water available major problem can be solved, Raghav added.

 Disappointed at conflicting data, Child health Nodal officer, Dr Tana Natung urged the District officer to upload only the correct data in HMIS. Resources person for the workshop were Dr Moulik Shah Health officer NE state UNICEF, Dr Sonal Dayma Consultant UNICEF and Bijoy Dungdung, consultant.

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