WHO in India

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Regional Director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, and WHO Country Representative to India Dr Roderico H. Ofrin celebrating the work of India’s strong women-powered community health workforce in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO field teams work closely with Community Health Officers like Anju Khare, 23, and ASHA (community health the volunteer) M Shanti Sethiya, 56, from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, as part of its support to strengthening primary health care at the community level in India.

A rural health officer conducts a routine antenatal care check-up in a designated room at Barsur Model Haat Bazaar Clinic in Dantewada district. The health consultation, medicines and essential vaccinations are provided free. WHO India is supporting the district in strengthening primary health care services. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

Health workers weigh a child at Sonpur Haat Bazaar Clinic to monitor the growth and development and identify early signs of malnutrition. Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are referred to a Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre. Health workers also provide information and advice on breastfeeding and routine immunizations to mothers for their child’s healthy growth and development. WHO India is assisting Narayanpur to strengthen health services. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

A woman gets tested for malaria at Awapalli Haat Bazaar Clinic in Usoor, Bijapur district. Tribal communities living in forested areas are among the most vulnerable groups affected by malaria. Early detection and treatment is helping the region move towards Malaria-Mukt Bastar Abhiyan (Malaria-free Bastar Campaign) goals. WHO India is assisting Bijapur in planning, implementation, and supportive supervision of health programmes. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

Screening for malaria, HIV, diabetes, anaemia, tuberculosis, leprosy, hypertension and eye disorders are provided to vulnerable communities living in hard-to-reach areas at temporary clinics in weekly markets under the Mukhyamantri Haat Bazaar Clinic Scheme in Chhattisgarh. WHO India is assisting the aspirational district of Dantewada to strengthen health services to achieve Universal Health Coverage. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

The health services provided at Haat Bazaar Clinics are empowering tribal communities to take charge of their health through prevention and self-management of chronic conditions. Since 2019, more than 2.5 million people have availed health services at the Haat Bazaar Clinics. WHO India is providing technical assistance to Bijapur, Dantewada and Sukma districts in the state to strengthen primary health care services. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

Mr Mutta Telam, 50, got diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure at the Haat Bazaar Clinic in Usoor Block of Bijapur District. WHO India is assisting the district in planning, implementation, and supportive supervision of health programmes. “Doctors prescribed medicines and also gave me an Ayushman Bharat card for cashless hospitalization. I get free prescription medicines here, life has improved significantly,” said Mr Telam, who sells vegetables at the Haat Bazaar. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

Haat Bazaar Clinics under the Mukhyamantri Haat Bazaar Clinic Scheme, like this one in Orchha village in Narayanpur district, take primary health services to the most vulnerable. This is fundamental to achieving Universal Health Coverage and aligned to the vision of Sustainable Development Goals of leaving no one behind. WHO India is assisting the aspirational district to strengthen health services to achieve the Universal Health Coverage. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

A tribal woman with complaints of headache and swelling in legs was diagnosed with moderate anaemia and given free prescription medicine at a Haat Bazaar Clinic in Dantewada district. WHO India is providing technical assistance to Dantewada and other districts in the state to strengthen primary health care services. Haat Bazaar Clinics promote health seeking behaviours of people who have been traditionally left outside the purview of the State’s health system. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

A doctor examines the oral cavity of a patient with complaints of a toothache. The Mukhyamantri Haat Bazaar Clinic Yojana provide health services at weekly markets in hard-to-reach areas to increase community access primary health care and referral to higher level of care, when needed. WHO India is supporting Sukma district in strengthening primary health care services. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

“I get my health check-up done at the Haat Bazaar Clinic, it’s very convenient. The health workers check my blood pressure and monitor other vitals. I also received my COVID vaccination doses here,” said a 32-week pregnant woman from Geedam village in Dantewada district. WHO is providing technical assistance to the district in planning, implementation, and supportive supervision of health programmes. (Photo: Rajiv Solanki /© WHO India)

WHO teams share information about COVID-19 vaccination with a group of students who have queued up to get vaccinated at DAV School CRRC Medical Road, Gaya, on 27 June under the ‘COVID Vaccination Maha Abhiyan’ launched for saturation vaccination coverage among all age groups. Photo: Chandrabhan /© WHO India

WHO Field Monitor Joseph Prabhudan visits a nomadic settlement in Govardhanpur in Pirpainti, Bhagalpur district, Bihar, on 20 June 2022, to identify and vaccinate children against polio as part of the Sub National Immunization Day activities. © WHO India

Dr Paresh Vasant Kantharia, WHO Regional Team Leader (in-charge) gives polio drops to missed child identified during the end-round survey of Sub National Immunization Day in June in Sadhugram Mushari village, Jehanabad district. The team comprised Sub Regional Team Lead Dr Rajeev Chandra Kumar and Surveillance Medical Officer Dr Kunal P Kuvalekar. Photo: Murari Sharma /© WHO India

WHO Surveillance Medical Officer Dr Anisur Rahman Bhuyan identifies and immunizes a child missed by the polio vaccination team in Kishanganj district in Bihar. The child lives in a makeshift nomadic shelter in a difficult-to-reach the riverine area, where the WHO team identified and immunized four unimmunized children, including one 15-days-old newborn. Photo: Binod Kumar /© WHO India

WHO Surveillance Medical Officer Dr Soumalya Ghosh identified an unimmunized pregnant woman in Debda village in Banka Urban district, Bihar, on 8 June. Following validation, the concerned medical officer in-charge was informed to ensure monitoring was intensified and everyone was immunized in that area. Photo: Nasimuddin /© WHO India

WHO teams conducted community surveillance for fever and rash, and monitoring immunization status of children in flood-affected Kopati village in Darrang district in Assam.(Photo: Kushal Kumar Das / ©WHO India)

A WHO team conducts surveillance for fever and rash and COVID-19 vaccination status in flood-affected Bhulukaguri village in Marigaon district in Assam. WHO is supporting the state government in strengthening vaccine-preventable disease surveillance to prevent disease outbreaks in displacement camps.(Photo: Mosabbir Ahmed / ©WHO India)

A WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Anisur Rahman Bhuyan at a vaccine monitoring session at the sub-depot at Dr H N Roy clinic in Gulabh Bagh, Purnia Urban block, Purnia district, Bihar. (Photo: Prakash Paswan / ©WHO India)

WHO field teams providing safe drinking water and medicines to communities inundated by the floods in the Cachar district in Assam. WHO is supporting the state government to strengthen vaccine-preventable disease surveillance to prevent disease outbreaks. (Photo: ©WHO India)

WHO Regional Team Lead Dr Paresh Vasant Kantharia and anganwadi workers in New Sipahi Tola, Purnia district, Bihar, review the list of people due for their COVID-19 precautionary dose (Photo: Prakash Paswan / ©WHO India)

A WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Anand Gautam conducts field supplementary immunization activity monitoring in Harinagar in Bokhra block, Sitamarhi district, Bihar. (Photo: Indrajeet Jha / ©WHO India)

WHO teams providing safe drinking water, medicines and other essentials in flood- affected areas of Cachar district, Assam. WHO is supporting the state government to strengthen vaccine-preventable disease surveillance to prevent disease outbreaks. (Photo: ©WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Soumalya Ghosh gives polio drops onsite to an unimmunized child during the Sub National Immunization Day for polio at the Sabour brick kiln in Bhagalpur district, Bihar. The parents were also briefed on the importance of routine immunization to protect their child’s health (Photo: Nasimuddin / ©WHO India)

A WHO team conducts community surveillance for fever and rash surveillance and immunization in flood-affected Bhulukaguri village, Jhargaon block, Marigaon district, Assam. WHO is supporting the state government to strengthen vaccine-preventable disease surveillance to prevent disease outbreaks. (Photo: Arup Kalita / ©WHO India)

WHO teams supporting ASHA workers conduct community surveillance for fever and rash and the immunization status of children in the flood-affected Bhulukaguri village in Jhargaon block, Marigaon district, Assam (Photo: Arup Kalita / ©WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Geetika Shankar monitoring a routine immunization session site in Rajak Tola, Bishunpur village in the Begusarai district, Bihar. (Photo: Rajani Kumari / ©WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Kunal P Kuvalekar participating in routine immunization survey validation at Ibrahimpur village, Ratni Faridpur block in the Jehanabad district, Bihar. (Photo: Rajani Kumari / ©WHO India)

6 June 2022 | Jamui, Bihar WHO-NPSP surveillance medical officer Dr Sumit Kataria conducts “wall marking during routine immunization survey in Jamui district, Bihar. Houses where children have received all doses of the vaccines are marked ‘P’ (protected), while homes where children have missed vaccines are marked ‘X’, indicating need for follow up vaccinations. (Photo: Chandra Shekhar Prasad Sinha / ©WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Sweta Roy and medical officer Dr Vikash Kumar Gupta train the ASHA workers on promoting and supporting routine immunization in Vaishali district, Bihar. (Photo: Binod Kumar / ©WHO India)

A WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Afaq Amir Ahmad monitors for acute flaccid paralysis by examining the muscle tone and power in a child’s arm in Baruna village in the Nuaon block of Kaimur district, Bihar. (Photo: Ritesh Kumar / ©WHO India)

Forty unvaccinated children were immunized in Round 3 of Mission Indradhanush 4.0 in an urban settlement in the Yamuna riverine area in the Central District of Delhi following the visit of WHO-National Public Health Support Programme teams to more than 100 households to identify children who had missed their doses. (Photo: Rahul / ©WHO India)

A four-year-old girl and an eight-month-old baby receive the oral polio vaccine at the Danapur Cantonment area and Adalatganj slum, respectively, in Patna District, Bihar. (Photo: Mohan Prasad / ©WHO India)

Field monitor Mr Gopal Shankar and supervisor Ms Nibha Kumari train the Anganwadi Workers and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives on maintaining tally-sheets and due-lists for house-to-house surveys to assess COVID vaccination coverage. (Photo: Poonam Kumari / ©WHO India)

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus and WHO Regional Director for South East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh visited the All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi on Tuesday. Dr Tedros and Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, later in the day. (Photo: Ms Payden / © WHO India)

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus and WHO Regional Director for South East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh were welcomed by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya at the All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi on Tuesday. Dr Tedros and Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, later in the day. (Photo: Ms Payden / © WHO India)

A newborn received the first shot of a BCG vaccine at Sadar Hospital in Aurangabad, Bihar. All children are administered BCG vaccines under the Universal Immunizaton Programme to protect them against childhood tuberculosis. (Photo: Vijay Kumar / ©WHO India)

WHO-National Public Health Support Programme (NPSP) teams monitoring the COVID-19 vaccination drive at Mata Chanan Devi Hospital, West Delhi District, Delhi. WHO-NPSP teams are supporting the state government to monitor vaccination rounds and increase outreach. (Photo: Manju Lata Sharma / ©WHO India)

A WHO-National Public Health Support Programme (NPSP) team identifying unvaccinated children and pregnant women in Tehkhand village in South-East District, Delhi, during a special drive under Mission Indradhanush 4.0 in March 2022. WHO-NPSP is supporting the government in capacity building, microplanning and monitoring of the vaccination drive to increase routine immunization coverage. (Photo: Manju Lata Sharma / ©WHO India)

A WHO team supporting the delivery of polio vaccines to children at a migratory camp in Lakhoura village in East Champaran district, Bihar. Children of migratory workers who travel with their parents often miss their routine immunization doses. (Photo: Maheshwar Prasad Yadav / ©WHO India)

WHO-NPSP Surveillance Medical Officer Dr Sumit Kataria vaccinates an unimmunized child during Polio National Immunization Day on 27 February 2022 at Kemankathi Kalyuga village in Jhajha block of Jamui district. (Mr Manoranjan Kumar / © WHO India)

WHO-NPSP Regional Team Lead Dr B P Subramanya and Surveillance Medical Officer (SMO) Dr Sweta Roy review pulse polio activity and the survey format for COVID vaccination of 15-<18 age group at Brindawan, Jafrabad, Lalganj in Vaishali district.(Photo: Mr Binod Kumar / © WHO India)

An unimmunized child being vaccinated by Dr Ruchika, from the WHO National Public Health Support Programme’s (WHO-NPSP) rapid response team during the Maha Shivratri festival at the Ulta Mahadev temple, Urdu Chowk, Tarapur in Munger district.(Photo: Mr Ramesh Kumar / © WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Zakariya Chouhan conducts house-to-house COVID-19 surveillance with district immunisation officer Dr C. S. Aggrawal and field monitor Mr Shailendra Singh in Dunger Sunari village in Gauriganj in Amethi district of Faizabad division, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: Raj Kishore/WHO India)

Field monitor Mr Ravi Sharma documents Ms Rakheeza Rushkar’s vaccination status during house-to-house surveillance for COVID-19 vaccination monitoring in Rajban Bazaar, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: Yusuf/WHO India)

WHO surveillance medical officer Dr Zakariya Chouhan and field monitor Mr Dileep Sharma conduct house-to-house surveillance in Mahamadpur village in Bhadar block of Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: Raj Kishore/WHO India)

Field monitor Mr Ankit Kumar supports auxiliary nurse midwife Ms Shashibala Devi and ASHA (community health activist) Ms Komal Sharma in conducting house-to-house monitoring for the containment of COVID-19 in Rajendra Nagar, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: Nikhil/WHO India)

Health care workers trudged through snow to vaccinate people with comorbidities in their homes in Chadoora block of Budgam district of Kashmir Division in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. WHO field teams are providing on-ground support to health authorities at all levels.