AIIMS Bhubaneswar trains NHM officials on quality assurance in healthcare

BHUBANESWAR: AIIMS Bhubaneswar’s hospital administration department has conducted a training programme for assistant managers (quality assurance), National Health Mission (NHM), posted at the district level in Odisha to monitor and improve quality of programmes implemented at state government hospitals.
The six-day training programme on ‘Hospital Administration and Quality Assurance in Healthcare’ ended on Saturday.The training for these NHM officials will enhance the quality of healthcare services across the state of Odisha in the long term.
The programme, supported by UNICEF, NHM, and the Odisha government, was conducted in compliance with the National Quality Assurance Standards. Inaugurating the training programme, AIIMS Bhubaneswar executive director Dr Ashutosh Biswas emphasized the crucial need for sensitizing healthcare providers to sustainable measures that ensure the quality of healthcare services.
Jawahar SK Pillai, head of hospital administration department, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, said the national institute has started a postdoctoral fellowship programme in healthcare quality and patient safety for the trained medical administrators (who have completed MD in hospital administration).
He said the assistant managers (quality assurance) posted in all 30 districts took part in the training programme. The training will help them to manage, monitor and improve quality programmes in government hospitals including primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs), he added.
Resource persons from AIIMS Bhubaneswar and other hospitals in Bhubaneswar have discussed on quality management and safety in healthcare, quality improvement tools, hospital statistics, statutory regulations, ethics, medication and surgical safety, planning, and organization of hospital units, infection control practices and surveillances, audits, emergency codes, patient satisfaction survey, outcome indicators in the National Quality Assurance Standards and others like facility management and occupation safety.
“The training programmes on quality and hospital administration for quality managers will strengthen the quality of healthcare in the state of Odisha in the long run,” said Pillai.