Chhattisgarh NCDI Poverty Commission

Commissioners

Smt. Renu Pillai – Additional Chief Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh Government

Dr. C.R. Prasanna – Commissioner, Health & Family Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh; MD, Chhattisgarh Medical Services Corporation

Mr. Neeraj Bansod – Director Health Services, Chhattisgarh Government

Dr. Priyanka Shukla – Joint Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh Government; MD, National Health Mission

Dr. R. K. Singh – Director, Medical Education, Chhattisgarh

Dr. G.S. Badesha – Director, Ayush, Health & Family Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Amar Singh Thakur – Director, State Institute of Health & Family Welfare, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Prashant Srivastav – Deputy Director, DHS, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Rajesh Srivastav – Deputy Director HA & Quality, Chhattisgarh

Dr. S. K. Pambhoi – Deputy Director, National Health Mission, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Srikant Rajimvale – State Nodal Officer, Medical Counsel, Health Insurance Chhattisgarh

Dr. Smit Srivastav – Professor & HOD Cardiologist, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Chhattisgarh

Dr. R.K. Panda – Professor & HOD Pulmonologist, Pt. JNM Medical College, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Kamlesh Jain – State Nodal Officer, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Yogesh Jain – Secretary, JSS Ganiyari, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Samir Garg – Executive Director, State Health Resource Center, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Mitashree Mitra – Professor, anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Chhattisgarh

Dr. Lalit Surjan – Editor, Deshbandhu daily newspaper, Chhattisgarh

Mr. Urya Nag – State Programme Manager, National Health Mission, Chhattisgarh

Mr. Anand Kumar Sahu – Programme Manager (M&E), National Health Mission, Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh Updates

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Photo Gallery: The UNICEF ROSA Workshop
Photo Gallery: The UNICEF ROSA Workshop

In early June, delegations from all eight countries in UNICEF ROSA—the Regional Office for South Asia—convened in Kathmandu for a three-day workshop on severe childhood-onset noncommunicable diseases.

Surguja Sickle Cell People’s Health Conference in Chhattisgarh, India</a>
Surguja Sickle Cell People’s Health Conference in Chhattisgarh, India

Over 400 people came together on 1 October to advocate for the needs of people living with sickle cell disease in Chhattisgarh State in central India.

PEN-Plus in Action Introduces a Global Partnership to Fight Severe, Chronic NCDs
PEN-Plus in Action Introduces a Global Partnership to Fight Severe, Chronic NCDs

More than 60 representatives of leading global health policy, technical, advocacy, and financing institutions and people living with NCDs gathered at UNICEF House in New York on September 15, 2022, to introduce the PEN-Plus Partnership, a major international initiative to address the global burden of severe NCDs and injuries that cause more than 500,000 avoidable deaths every year among children and young adults living in extreme poverty.