Event : Regional Review Meeting for State Nodal Officers of North East States for National Oral Health Programme and Monitoring of School Based Pit and Fissure Sealant Programme    

Date: 15th and 16th January 2018 

Dr. Harsh Priya, Assistant Professor, CDER AIIMS New Delhi represented the National Centre of Excellence for the Implementation of the National Oral Health Programme in the Regional Review Meeting for State Nodal Officers of North East States. The six of the seven states nodal officers had participated for this meeting. They presented a gap analysis of each state for the functioning of NOHP. They were also familiarised with the present PIP for the next year budget. Also the issues in each of their dental facility at various centres were discussed and critically apprised. 

The School Based Pit and Fissure Sealant Programme a pilot project, an initiative of MoHFW with an MoU with twelve Dental Colleges and RIMS Imphal being one of them. The monitoring of this programme is being done by CDER, AIIMS New Delhi. It was carried out in two school; one at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Langjing and Praja High School, Lamsang. Randomly few children were called from the first school and were evaluated for pit and fissure sealant that was placed. Also the school Principal were met and were thanked for their support. In the next school the ongoing programme was evaluated where the Interns, Faculty and Staff were monitored for the process evaluation.