Union Health Minister Mandaviya lays foundation stone for National Centre for Disease Control's regional branches
Jan 02, 2024
Guwahati (Assam) [India], January 3 : Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya laid the foundation stone of the regional branches of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi, along with nine other states, including Assam, through a virtual ceremony on Tuesday.
The laying of the foundation stone of the regional NCDC in Assam's Guwahati was graced by the presence of Keshab Mahanta, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, etc., along with Queen Oja, Member of Parliament from NHM Conference Hall in Guwahati.
This regional branch of the NCDC will be built on the allotted plot next to Rani CHC, Kamrup. The NCDC branches in the States will support the state government in timely disease surveillance and monitoring and will enable early warning leading to timely intervention based on evidence gathered from the field. 
The state branch will coordinate with NCDC headquarter in the national capital with real time sharing of data and information.
The regional NCDC branches would also be crucial in ensuring the timely availability of updated guidelines in the state and throughout the northeast so that accurate, scientifically backed information can be disseminated easily.
The Minister for Health and Family Welfare, etc., Keshab Mahanta, after the completion of the ceremony, had an interaction session with the journalists.
The Health Minister said that "this new regional NCDC centre will surely help in strengthening the health system in the state by effectively detecting, investigating, monitoring, preventing, and combating public health emergencies and disease outbreaks in the state. The regional branch of the NCDC will provide a boost to public health infrastructure with prompt surveillance, rapid detection and monitoring of diseases, thereby enabling early interventions in this NE region of the country."
