National Centre for Disease Control

Relevance: Prelims: Governance

Why in news?

• Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare visited National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Control Room and the Testing Laboratories.

About:

The Institute is under administrative control of the Director General of Health Services,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.

• The Director, an officer of the Public Health sub-cadre of Central Health Service, is the administrative and technical head of the Institute.

• The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) had its origin as Central Malaria Bureau, established at Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1909.

• It functions as the nodal agency in the country for disease surveillance facilitating prevention and control of communicable diseases.

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