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MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
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ORGANIsATION
Organisation.- The Health department's work in the district is now within the purview of the Zilla Parishad. A subjects committee looks after its working and the District Health Officer works as a secretary to it as well as officer-in-charge of the health matters in the district.
The head of the Public Health department at the State level is the Director of Public Health, stationed at Pune. For the public health administration the State is divided into four divisions and each division is placed under the control of a Deputy Director of Public Health Services. The health activities in the Bul-dhana district are controlled by the Deputy Director of Public Health, Nagpur, through the District Health Officer, Buldhana.
After the formation of the Zilla Parishad in the year 1962 the health activities at tahsil and district levels have been entrusted to the Zilla Parishad. The District Health Officer organises measures for public sanitation and hygiene, investigates the causes of diseases and adopts preventive measures. He also gives his advise to the local self-government institutions about health, sanitation, drainage, water-supply, family planning and child and maternity welfare, etc.
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