Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme : In News
A total of 1,862 disease outbreaks were reported to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme last year, with the highest number being reported from Kerala, the Lok Sabha was informed recently.
- Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) is a decentralized, state-based surveillance programme in the country.
- It was launched with World Bank assistance in November 2004 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
- Objectives is to strengthen/maintain a decentralized laboratory-based IT enabled disease surveillance system for epidemic-prone diseases to monitor disease trends and to detect and respond to outbreaks in the early rising phase through trained Rapid Response Teams (RRTs).
