MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION

The public health of the district is looked after by the Public Health Department of the State, municipalities and the Zilla Parishad.

The Public Health Department is entrusted with the responsibility of prevention and control of communicable diseases, epidemics, environmental hygiene and sanitation, safeguarding the purity of drinking water-supply and checking adulterations of food, training of public health workers, maintenance of school health services, implementation of skim-milk feeding programme for expectant and nursing mothers and school children, execution of the schemes such as national programme of family planning, small-pox eradication programme, etc.

The Director of Public Health with his headquarters at Pane is the head of this Department at the state level. For public health purposes the State is divided into four divisions, each division headed by a Deputy Director of Public Health. Yeotmal district comes under the Nagpur division. With the formation of the Zilla Parishad all the health matters except those managed by the government and municipalities directly are looked after by the Health Officer of the Zilla Parishad who is responsible to the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Parishad. fn technical matters the advice of the Deputy Director of Public Health Services at Nagpur and the Civil Surgeon at Yeotmal who is the actual custodian of public health of the district, prevails.

Since the formation of the Zilla Parishad all responsibilities regarding public health and medical aid in rural areas have been transferred to the Zilla Parishad. As such the Public Health staff and the medical staff (except those of the Civil hospital and college hospitals) formerly working under the Public Health Department, Medical Department, and ex-Janapad Sabhas haw-been transferred to the Zilla Parishad, Yeotmal, from May 1, 1962.

The primary health centres, maternity and child health centres along with other institutions in the district health organization are looked after entirely by the Zilla Parishad, while the leprosy survey, education and treatment units and the family planning centres arc looked after by the Zilla Parishad on agency basis.

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