NATIONAL CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL (NCDC)

March 25, 2020

Union Minister of Health & 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.

  • Headquarters: New Delhi. 

Source : PIB

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