Chadah Committee, 1963

• For NMEP

Why the Chadha Committee?

• Malaria used to be rampant in India in 1950’s

  • It was the greatest handicap in the socio-economic development of the country

• National Malaria Control Program (later NMEP) was launched in 1953

  • to control the extremely high levels of Malaria infections

• The program operated in 4 phases

1. Preparatory
2. Attack
3. Consolidation
4. Maintenance: House to house visits to identify fever cases (Vigilance)

• A special organization was established for the first 3 phases

• The**‘Maintenance’ phase**: the responsibility for the activities was to be passed on to the General health services of the country in 1964

• Chadha committee was appointed

  • To identify the arrangements for this important hand over of the maintenance phase

• Chadah committee

• Appointed by the Government of India in 1963

  • Under the Chairmanship of Dr. M.S. Chadah.
  • The then Director General of health Services

• To study the arrangements necessary for

  • the maintenance phase of the
  • National Malaria Eradication Programme

• The Committee recommended

• ‘Vigilance’ operations under NMEP

  • Should be the responsibility of the general health services i.e.
  • Primary health centres at the block level.

• Vigilance operations included:

  • Monthly home visits to identify fever cases
  • To be carry out through separate workers
  • The ‘basic health workers’.
  • One basic health worker per 10,000 population was recommended.

• The Basic health workers were seen as ‘multipurpose workers’ i.e.

1. In addition to malaria vigilance, have duties of
   2.Collection of vital statistics and
   3.Family planning

• The Family Planning Health Assistants were

  • To supervise 3 or 4 of these basic health workers.

• From the district level upwards:

  • The general health services were to take the responsibility for the maintenance phase

Reference

• Park, K. (2021) Parks Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. 26th Edition, M/S Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur
• Chadha Committee Report, National Health Portal website. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20200929134124/https://www.nhp.gov.in/sites/default/files/pdf/chada_committe_report.pdf accessed on 17 Sep 2021 at 2PM

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