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Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme launched
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- The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched a new state-of-the art information platform to monitor public health surveillance in 7 states in New Delhi.
- The initiative called Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) is a segment of the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP).
- It is the first one-of-its-kind initiative launched by the Central Government to monitor the public health surveillance.
- It is a real time, village wise, case based electronic health information system with GIS tagging to provide prompt prevention and control of epidemic prone diseases.
- It will provide near-real-time data to policy makers for detecting outbreaks, reducing the morbidity and mortality and lessening disease burden in populations.
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