State Act

The Assam Community Health Professionals (Registration and Competency) Act, 2015

5. The competencies for the Community Health Professionals shall be divided into three categories as follows :- (1) Public Health Competencies :- (a) To implement National Programmes on the ground with ANMs, health workers, ASHAs and others ; (b) To act in various programmes like,- (i) revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), (ii) National Aids Control Programme, (iii) National Diabetes Control Programme, (iv) National Program for Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD), (v) National Tobacco Control Programme, (vi) National Leprosy Eradication Programme, (vii) National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, (viii) National Cancer Registry Programme, (ix) National Mental Health Programme, (x) Other programmes of the State or Central Governments as may be assigned to them by the Government from time to time ; (c) To perform a supervisory role, supervising the work of ANMs, Health workers and ASHAs ; (d) To perform a supportive role where they act as a source of knowledge providing knowledge augmentation for the health workers, ANMs, ASHAs and others ; (e) To perform integrative work with other national programmes and development teams like,- (i) Agriculture, (ii) ICDS, (iii) Water sanitation, (iv) Nutrition, (v) Natural Calamities, (vi) Others as may be assigned by the Government from time to time ; (f) To perform an Advocacy role to ,- (i) act as a leader and change agent working closely with women's groups, PRIs, NGOs and others, (ii) promote behaviour change for health, (iii) general awareness and knowledge among people. (2) Clinical Competencies:- (a) To provide primary care for simple, uncomplicated common problems of adults and children on purely ambulatory basis at the Sub Centre clinic; (b) To refer all the other cases to physicians and provide facilities after first aid and pre-referral stabilization care, as required ; (c) To dispensing designated drugs prescribed by the physician ; (d) To conduct specified laboratory tests such as malarial parasite, HB test, filarial, TLC, Pap smear, etc. ; (e) To oversee and ensure community-based care of the patients who received out patient or in patient care facility and are now at home. (3) General Competencies:- Apart from the above mentioned public health and clinical competencies the Community Health Professionals should also possess,- (a) good communication skills, both written and verbal, (b) IT skills, i.e. knowing how to operate a computer and performing basic typing and computing activities on it, (c) Managerial Skills such as team building, guiding, resource management etc., (d) Analytical and problem Solving skills.