Important for
Prelims: Social Issues
Mains: UPSC General Studies Paper- II
SAKSHAM- LIMS
- The Union Health Ministry has introduced the SAKSHAM- LIMS (Stimulating Advanced
- Knowledge for Sustainable Health Management), a Learning Management Information
- Training and medical education to all healthcare professionals across the country.
- Developed By: National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW).
- Objective: The platform aims to ensure inclusive capacity building among health professionals, ranging from those working in rural and remote primary health centers to those in metropolitan cities; tertiary care and corporate hospitals.
- Prospects: Saksham will be developed as a centralized resource repository for training and teaching material.
- It will also act as a central database of trained healthcare professionals in the country.
National Institute of Health & Family Welfare :
- Established on 9th March 1977, under the autonomous Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
- To act as a think tank for the promotion of health and family welfare programs in the country.
- It is also the premier organization for capacity building through training of health professionals, frontline health workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANMs) and other central and state officers & healthcare staff.
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