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The
Council's Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals started
functioning in 1984, at
Jabalpur
, from three rooms in
Medical
College
with a handful of staff. The centre continued functioning from Medical
college till 1990 to address mainly to the study of the health and
nutritional problems of the tribal populations, including nutritional
disorders, common communicable diseases, environmental health problems,
etc. The State Health has utilized the expertise of the scientists
in planning, monitoring and evaluation of tribal health and other
developmental programs in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh and also in training health functionaries of these states.
This Centre is also attempting simultaneously to estimate the magnitude
of health problems posed by other common diseases such as malaria,
tuberculosis, leprosy, diarrhoea, filariasis, venereal diseases,
poliomyelitis, measles, etc. Further, the Centre also studies the blood
groups, abnormal haemoglobins and other genetic health problems to
stratify areas and to suggest control measures including interventions.
Socio-economic, demographic and cultural profile of the tribal
population gives an insight about how they play an important role in
complicating and enhancing the magnitude of the problem. The centre was
shifted to the main building of RMRCT in April 2002 and now establishing
laboratories for Molecular Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology and
Clinical Epidemiology in full swing.
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