MOTHER AND CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM (MCTS) 10/26/2013 Training Report Leh Division NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE NEW DELHI
MCTS Leh training Conducted by NIHFW (24 th October- 25 nd October 2013) Introduction To strengthen the implementation of MCTS at the Block/ District level and to initiate capacity building towards improvement in data quality on MCTS portal, The MoHFW imparted training on MCTS to the programme management units at District/ Block level. Total 35 participants from all the two districts of Leh division, comprised of Health, Data Management Officials and District Program Management Units spread over 2 districts. (See Annexure: 1 Training Schedule). The participants from each district were invited over two days, day 1 comprised of presentation on MCTS and day 2 comprised of Hands-on Training. The 2 days training was held at CMO office Leh, from 24th Oct, 2013 to 25 th October, 2013. Overall compositions of the batches comprised of State Data officer, Chief Medical officers (CMO), Block Medical officers (BMO), District Programme Managers (DPM), District Monitoring and Evaluation officers, Data Entry Operators, Block M&E Officers. Orientation on MCTS 1
Presentation on MCTS Resource person: One Supervisor Mr. Parimal Parya (Research officer) and three resource persons, Dr. Prafful Bharadwaj (Training Consultant), Mohd. Kamil (M& E Consultant) and Javed Khan (IT Consultant) from the National Institute of Health and Family welfare had delivered the training towards improvement in data quality on MCTS portal. Methodology: Lecture, discussion, Presentation, Online Demonstration of MCTS portal, hands-on Training on MCTS Portal: MCTS training was given to the participants, with online demonstration and power point presentation on data quality in MCTS. Data Entry, Reports, Scheduled Reports, Work plan, Migration & SMS sections of the MCTS Portal were made clear to the participants. Data Entry: There were few misconceptions regarding ANC services given to the pregnant women, especially for those who are not coming in their early trimester, abortion, which was taken up in discussion and made clear. Reports and Scheduled Reports: Difference between reports and scheduled reports was told. And complete online demonstration on all user specific (Block and District level) reports and scheduled reports were made to the participants. Certain reports which were focussed were as follows: 2
Reports Mother and Child details, Month wise data entry, Health provider Count, list of sub-centres without health provider/ ASHA, Month wise tracking of services, Facility wise tracking of High risk Pregnant women, facility wise log for work plan generation, facility wise not reporting with in charge details, Facility wise report on key indicators of Beneficiaries health Scheduled Reports Facility wise mother and child count, Facility wise work plan and services given, District wise health provider count, District wise facilities not entering data, Month wise data entry, Facility wise mother and child count. Work plan: All features of work plan were discussed and shown through online MCTS portal to the participants. Facility wise Workplan, the latest report, was appreciated by the participants. Migration: The complete online demonstration on migration module was given to the participants and their queries on inter- district, inter- block migration were solved. SMS Section: The complete online demonstration for sending SMS was given to the participants. Working on Verification module for data related to beneficiaries, ccontact details of ANM/ASHA was also made clear. Some new features like IVRS facility for all the health officials and coordinators to know the MCTS progress status (registration, services due & services delivered) and Dedicated Call Centre at national level for awareness on various government health initiatives and schemes were also told. 3
Following clarifications given by the participants on following findings: 1. When asked about the lag between ANC 1 and subsequent services; BCG and subsequent immunizations, they answered that the services were provided but not reported due to poor or non availability of internet connection and also due to problem in data collection from the ANMs. 2. The issue of sending and receiving the SMS was raised as due to security reasons sending and receiving SMS s on the prepaid numbers is not allowed. Even the SMS sent from a post-paid number of J&K will not be received by a prepaid number of J&K. 3. As in difficult areas, the phone connectivity is not possible that is why the number of beneficiary with self-phone number was very less. 4. The schedule of ANC services was not clear to the participants, which was made clear to them. 5. The multiple registrations of ANMs/ ASHAs of all the two respective districts were shown and discussed with the participants and they were asked to identify the mistakes at the end of the presentation. 4
Annexure 1: Training Schedule S.No. Name of the Districts Date No. of Participants 1 Leh/Kargil 24-10-2013 to 25-02-2013 35 2 5