National blood donor vigilance programme: India

Donor vigilance and hemovigilance

Reporting and learning systems in general The ability to learn from adverse events and near misses is a cornerstone for improving safety in different high-risk areas such as the aviation and oil industries. Commercial passenger aviation has become extremely safe partly due to extensive use of reporting and learning systems (RLS). A system for reporting adverse events and learning from these eve...

Blood culture in India: a proposal for a national programme for early detection of sepsis.

Septicaemia is a major contributor of mortality. Blood culture is the essential investigation for the management of sepsis. Due to lack of resources blood culture is an irregularly used investigation in India. A three-tier level of development is being proposed to develop the blood culture based national programme for early detection of sepsis. The plan envisages the establishment of manual blo...

Achievements of National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) in India.

Since the inception of National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) in the year 1983 spectacular success has been made in reducing the burden of Leprosy and the country could achieve the goal of leprosy elimination as a public health problem. i.e. to reduce the prevalence rate (PR) to less than 1 case / 10,000 population at National level by December 2005 as set by National Health Policy 2002....

Family Welfare Government of India National Nutritional Anaemia Control Programme

India needs a national COPD prevention and control programme.