UP launches initiative to eliminate rheumatic heart disease

‘RHD ROKO’

- HT Correspondent

Aiming to eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) from Uttar Pradesh within the next decade, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGI) held a high-level meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) to launch the “RHD Roko Initiative’—a first-of-its-kind, large-scale, collaborative programme.

Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, principal secretary of medical education, who is also heading the programme, stressed the need to integrate the programme with existing state government health programmes by actively involving Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) foot soldiers. “This would make this initiative scalable and implementable,” he said.

“This would make the initiative scalable and implementable,” he said.