Govt asks pvt labs to share data on diseases

Patna: State health department on Saturday instructed all the private laboratories functioning in Bihar to share the data related to patients’ various diseases. The motive is to identify the places from where the diseases, especially communicable ones, are emerging and to find ways to stop them and also provide government benefits to the patients undergoing tests at private centres.
Surveillance officer at the state health society, Dr Ranjeet Kumar, said a meeting was called on Saturday in which the private players were told how to upload the data to integrated health information platforms.Dr Kumar said they were keeping a tab on some 33 infectious diseases and stress was given on collection of their data, so that their spread could be checked. He said while some of the private laboratories have started sharing their data, a few were still not following the process.
Nearly three weeks back, a workshop was organised by the state health society and a central team in the state capital in which stress was given on proper surveillance of communicable diseases and to expand the integrated disease surveillance programme (IDSP) and integrated health information platform (IHFP) of the central government.