{"id":225469,"date":"2023-10-06T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=225469"},"modified":"2023-10-06T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:45:36","slug":"hypertension-control-initiative-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/hypertension-control-initiative-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension control initiative launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, 4 Oct:<\/strong> The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) was launched alongside a training of trainers programme for &#8220;the medical officers on IHCI&#8221; in Papum Pare and the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) districts, under the National Programme for Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (NPNCD), by the state NCD division, at the NHM training centre here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the participants, NPNCD epidemiologist Dr Bomto Riram briefed them on the importance of blood pressure (BP) measurements, and elaborated the role of the MOs in the health units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State NHM MD Marge Sora advised the participants to &#8220;implement the treatment protocol in the respective districts for efficient service delivery to the people of the state,&#8221; while WHO Cardiovascular Officer Dr Lalit Sarode presented the details of &#8220;opportunistic screening and task sharing with details on monitoring and information system,&#8221; the DHS office here informed in a release, adding that Dr Sarode also stressed on the importance of real-time uploading of data to the NCD portal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Resolve to Save Lives&#8217; senior technical adviser on hypertension control, Dr Ashish Krishna presented an overview of the IHCI programme and protocol-based treatment, and NCD consultant Dr Shubhabrata Das spoke on &#8220;drug stock management and measurement, and diagnosis of BP,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NPNCD state programme coordinator Kenyir Taipodia and NPNCD state nodal officer Dr L Jampa also spoke, it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, 4 Oct: The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) was launched alongside a training of trainers programme for &#8220;the medical officers on IHCI&#8221; in Papum Pare and the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) districts, under the National Programme for Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (NPNCD), by the state NCD division, at the NHM training centre here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}