ITANAGAR, Jul 15: A team of officials from the National Health System Resource Centre (NHSRC) and Regional Resource Centre-North East (RRC-NE), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare visited Arunachal Pradesh from July 9 to 14. The main objective of the visit was to understand the present health system of the state and support the state government in the creation of different health cadres as per the mandates of NITI Aayog and National Health Policy 2017. The team consisted of Dr. Siddharth Maurya, Dr. Musarrat Siddique, Dr. Diyva and Ms Vaishnavi.
The team called on the Secretary and Special Secretary (Health & FW), Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh. The importance of revamping the existing health cadres and creation of Public Health Management cadre was discussed. The Secretary (H&FW) apprised the team on creation of State Task Force for the same in the state. The team also informed that the RRC-NE in collaboration with NHSRC, MoHFW, will be organizing a “2-Day Regional Level Technical Support Workshop on Reform of Health Workforce Cadre in North Eastern States”, during the first week of August at Guwahati, Assam where Joint Secretary (Policy), and Executive Director (NHSRC), MoHFW, will also be participating. 

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