Department of Medical, Health & Family Welfare

GOVERNMENT OF UTTAR PRADESH

National Programme for Prevention & Control of Deafness (NPPCD)

Program Officer and Other Employee at State :

SN	NAME	DESIGNATION	CONTACT NUMBER	EMAIL
1	Dr. PK Singh	State Programme Officer	9415007687	nppcdup@gmail.com
2	Netrapal	State Consultant	9411036668	nppcdup@gmail.com
3	Shikha Dwivedi	Programme Assistant	9415400391	nppcdup@gmail.com

Brief Description about Program :

Components of the programme:

Manpower training and development - For prevention, early identification and management of hearing impaired and deafness cases, training would be provided from medical college level specialists (ENT and Audiology) to grass root level workers.

Capacity building – for the district hospital, community health centers and primary health center in respect of ENT/ Audiology infrastructure.

Service provision – Early detection and management of hearing and speech impaired cases and rehabilitation, at different levels of health care delivery system.

Awareness generation through IEC/BCC activities – for early identification of hearing impaired, especially children so that timely management of such cases is possible and to remove the stigma attached to deafness.

Under capacity building the programme districts are getting Sound proof room constructed at district hospital and diagnostic equipments, surgical equipments & instruments for ear surgery. Diagnostic kits for CHC PHC are also provisioned. Training of manpower at state, district & CHC PHC level(ENT Surgeons to Grass root worker).

Existing districts under NPPCD

1	Agra	19	Shahjahanpur
2	Prayagraj	20	Varanasi
3	Aligarh	21	Ballia
4	Azamgarh	22	Deoria
5	Banda	23	Etawah
6	Barabanki	24	Fatehpur
7	Baharaich	25	Gaziabad
8	Basti	26	Hathras
9	Bareilly	27	Jaunpur
10	Ayadhya	28	Lalitpur
11	Gorakhpur	29	Mahoba
12	Jhansi	30	Mathura
13	Kanpur Nagar	31	Mujjafarnagar
14	Lucknow	32	Raibareilly
15	Meerut	33	Rampur
16	Mirzapur	34	Shrawasti
17	Moradabad	35	Siddharthnagar
18	Saharanpur	36	Sonbhadra

New districts included under NPPCD programme in 2018-19

1	Badaun	11	Hardoi
2	Baghpat	12	Jalaun
3	Bijnour	13	Kannauj
4	Bulandshahr	14	Kanpur Dehat
5	Chandauli	15	Kheri
6	Farrukhabad	16	Kushinagar
7	Gautambuddha Nagar	17	Mau
8	Ghazipur	18	Pratapgarh
9	Gonda	19	Sitapur
10	Hamirpur	20	Unnao

Year of Starting: 2007
Program running in District: Programme is running in 56 districts

Program Objective :

To prevent avoidable hearing loss on account of disease or injury.
Early identification, diagnosis and treatment of ear problems responsible for hearing loss and deafness.
To strengthen the existing inter-sectoral linkages for continuity of the rehabilitation programme, for persons with deafness.
To develop institutional capacity for ear care services by providing support for equipment, material and training personnel.

Key Strategies :

To strengthen the service delivery for ear care.
To develop human resource for ear care services.
To promote public awareness through appropriate and effective IEC strategies with special emphasis on prevention of deafness.
To develop institutional capacity of the district hospitals, community health centers and primary health centers selected under the Programme.

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