Medical Education and Family Welfare Division Secretary Ali Noor in his speech as chief guest elaborated on how the nation is entering into a new era of digitization and hopes that the DGFP will be able to ensure successful implementation of healthcare activities through the data management system.
USAID Office of Population, Health, Nutrition and Education (OPHNE) Director Xerses Sidhwa spoke on how the eMIS initiatives will make the lives of health workers easier and hoped that paper gets discontinued altogether.
He also highlighted the importance of analyses of digitisation and what can be learnt from these findings.
Save the Children in Bangladesh Country Directro Onno Van Manen spoke on how Save the Children has been a long-time partner of the USAID funded MaMoni projects and has been continuously supporting the government. “We look forward to the acceptance of these digital tools by the end users in remote corners of Bangladesh,” he added.
DGFP Director General Shahan Ara Banu said the eMIS initiative will be expanded to the rest of the districts so that it helps the country’s overall goal in providing quality maternal and newborn health care services.
The electronic management information system (eMIS) is designed to replace paper-based data management with digital form with fast and efficient e-registration, serves the purpose of monitoring from a central level, and ensures sustainability.
This process has now helped field level public health care providers to just carry a small tab with them to put the data instantly that goes into the central database instead of manual paper-based registers.
USAID-supported partners are icddr,b, Data for Impact (D4I) while Save the Children provided the technical support.