Meghalaya Health Systems Strengthening Project (MHSSP)

The Ramaiah Medical College and RICPHI have been jointly awarded a contract by the Meghalaya Health Systems Strengthening Project under the National Health Mission, Meghalaya for “Providing Capacity Building Support for Health Staff including Nurses under the Meghalaya Health Systems Strengthening Project (MHSSP) to improve the efficiency and accountability in delivering day-to-day activities at Health Facilities at the State and District levels by developing clinical and techno-managerial skills of medical officers, block and district level officials, including the nursing cadre of the Health Department of the State” effective from January 2023, for three years. 

The official contract was signed between the MHSSP team led by Mr. Ram Kumar, IAS, Secretary-Health and MD, NHM, Meghalaya, and the Ramaiah team led by Dr. Shalini C. Nooyi, Principal, and Dean, Ramaiah Medical College in presence of Dr. Nayanjeet Chaudhury, Director, RICPHI and representatives of, both, Govt. of Meghalaya and the Ramaiah team on January 30, 2023, in Shillong. All in all, the entire project comprises of gap analysis of T-M competencies in the state via Training Needs Assessment (TNA), curriculum development for different cadres of healthcare professionals, curriculum delivery via a hybrid model of learning, midline assessments, training of master trainers and endline evaluation.