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| Training-cum-workshop on Verbal Autopsy commenced | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: A two day-long training-cum-workshop on Verbal Autopsy was inaugurated today by Basharat Saleem, Director of Census Operations J&K at Conference Hall of Preventive & Social Medicine Department of Government Medical College Jammu, emphasizing the importance and rationale of Civil Registration System, Sample Registration System and need for Verbal Autopsy to estimate the proportional causes of death in India. Basharat Saleem in his inaugural address as a chief guest highlighted that the importance of data collection during the forthcoming Census 2021, the intricacies and accuracy in collection of data with help of information technology will be the key to success for all of us. This will be of immense value not only for India but also for the Global community, which is eagerly waiting for the release of the vast and diverse variety of Indian population data. Dr Dinesh Kumar, HOD, Preventive & Social Medicine, Government Medical College, Jammu in his key note address called for two way interaction from the participating Supervisors as well as the faculty members, resource persons and facilitators. He said that this workshop has been organized in collaboration with AIIMS Verbal Autopsy Network (MINErVA). He highlighted that because of the resource crunch, trained non-medical surveyors will prove to be a boon for generating good quality of data during the conduct of VA interviews. On the first day of the workshop writing a good narrative using the key symptoms list, communication and interviewing skills, evaluation and mock VA interviews were discussed in detail. Four teams of the participants would be visiting in the SRS field units tomorrow to actually canvass the VA forms designed for the purpose. |
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