Telangana in pink of health

Hyderabad: In an endorsement of the developmental activities initiated in the healthcare sector by the State government in the last few years, Telangana has emerged among the top three Indian States to have best quality healthcare facilities in the Health Index (HI) rankings that were released by NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog on […]

Hyderabad: In an endorsement of the developmental activities initiated in the healthcare sector by the State government in the last few years, Telangana has emerged among the top three Indian States to have best quality healthcare facilities in the Health Index (HI) rankings that were released by NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog on Monday.

The NITI Aayog recognition propels Telangana to the top league of best performing Indian States in healthcare sector and has slotted it next to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which are usually considered as the traditional powerhouses in the health care sector. While Kerala and Tamil Nadu took many years to fine-tune their healthcare framework, much to its credit, Telangana managed to reach the top of the heap within a few years.

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Telangana has also emerged as the only Indian State (among 19 other larger Indian States) to have registered strong overall performance and also showed incremental performance between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the NITI Aayog report said. “Among the larger States, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana emerged among the best three performers in terms of overall performance.

Telangana performed well both in terms of Overall Performance as well as Incremental Performance and secured the third position in both the categories,” the Health Index report said.

Mizoram (among smaller states) and Telangana (among larger states) were the only two states that demonstrated strong overall performance and showed most improvements in the incremental performance between the Base Year (2018-19) and Reference Year (2019-20), the NITI Aayog report said. Telangana is the only State that demonstrated strong overall performance as well as incremental performance. In several indicators it had attained the best possible performance.

For example, it attained universal full immunisation of children and total case notification of tuberculosis, had fully functional First Referral Units (FRUs) and all Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and urban PHCs functional as Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs), operation theatres and labour rooms of all district hospitals certified under LaQshya and Kayakalp scores more than 70 percent; and no vacancies of ANMs in Sub Centres and Medical Officers in PHCs. In terms of Incremental Performance, Telangana made major gains in the Key Inputs and Processes domain with nearly half the indicators in the Fully Achieved or Most Improved or Improved category; against 19 percent for Rajasthan,” the NITI Aayog report said.

Health Index scores and rankings for States and UTs are generated to assess Incremental Performance (year-to-year progress) and Overall Performance (current performance). It is expected that the exercise will help drive state/UT’s efforts towards achievement of health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including those related to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health outcomes.

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