: The Health Department has conducted its first-ever social audit at Pantha sub-centre under the Kallikkadu primary health centre (PHC) in Thiruvananthapuram district.
The decision to conduct social auditing in at least four sub-centres in four districts in the State on an experimental basis had been taken by the governing body of the National Health Mission (NHM). The NHM decided to take up this activity as part of its efforts to understand what the beneficiaries expected from the Health Department and their assessment of the services that were being provided to them. Submitting the first social audit report of the Pantha sub-centre at a public hearing held here on Thursday, Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar said the social auditing process would be extended to all sub-centres in phases.
Those who participated in Thursday’s public hearing included representatives of the local self-governing body, the State programme manager of NHM N. Sreedhar; V. Ramankutty, public health expert, T.A. Menon of the Centre for Management Development, and senior officials of the NHM.
