Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme
About
- The Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) was launched in 2004 by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare with assistance from the World Bank.
- The IDSP aims to strengthen disease surveillance for infectious diseases to detect and respond to outbreaks immediately.
- Its objective is to build a decentralized, IT-enabled, laboratory-based surveillance system with trained Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), strengthened laboratories, skilled human resources, and inter-sectoral coordination, especially for zoonotic diseases (those that spread from animals to humans).
- The IDSP constitutes State Surveillance Units (SSU) at all state/UT headquarters, District Surveillance Units (DSU) in the districts and a Central Surveillance Unit (CSU) in Delhi.