If every Doctor knows about this IDSP and follows its guidelines, Dengue, and all other infectious diseases with the Non-Communicable diseases also, could be effectively prevented and eliminated. Read about it here.
Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) is the component of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of India. This programme was started in November 2004. Under this programme the disease case detection at all levels is simpler by using simpler case definitions.With it, diseases incidence data can be retrieved on all levels from Primary Health centre areas to all India level through District and State levels.
Objectives of IDSP:
1) District-based surveillance for Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases.
2) Integration of all existing surveillance programmes.
3) Forecasting of any impending epidemic.
4) Analyzing data and planning for control or eradication of Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases.
Uses of IDSP:
1) Linking all health systems - Primary, Secondary, Tertiary care institutions and Private institutions provides high quality IDSP data collection.
2) Informing the immediately superior health personnel avoids the delay in receiving orders from higher authourities for early action to prevent effectively any impending
epidemic and thereby for the prevention of resultant morbidity and
mortality in the area concerned.
3) Instant retrieval of surveillance data by Central Government health authourities through the website of IDSP portal for analyzing the health problems in States. This avoids the delay in getting reports from the concerned States.
Expected role of Hospital Doctors in IDSP:
1) Doctors must write provisional diagnosis legibly in the OPD register.
2) They should report about the suspected cases to District Surveillance Officer (Deputy Director of Health Services) over phone; they should also write the addresses of such cases in OPD register.
3) Doctors should refer such suspected cases to laboratory for the relevant investigations.
Courtesy: Dr.S.Balasubramanian M.B.,B.S., D.P.H.
